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We're going on a beetle hunt
This is a story about what it's like to tackle an entirely new problem, so nothing is easy. Not even catching some beetles.
Let the hunt begin!
Disability advocate Marcus Dadd: ‘I hope I can inspire people to chase their dreams’
Fenner graduate and disability advocate Marcus Dadd has a passion for inclusive and sustainable practices in agriculture.
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Australia’s summer weather heats up
Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick gives us the run down of what is expected to be Australia's hottest hummer on record.
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We have two potential PhD opportunities to participate in the IWF research, and in particular contribute to an Australia Research Council funded project Foresight in times of disruption: Advancing the theory and practice of anticipatory governance in water resource management.
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A leading Australian bushfire recovery scientist has called for an immediate end to native forest logging in Victoria in the wake of the catastrophic summer bushfires.
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Supported by results of the Gang-gang Survey, an exciting PhD opportunity has emerged to study the resource requirements and movement patterns of Gang-gangs across the ACT region.
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The worst fire danger spots will be much easier to identify, thanks to revolutionary new technology being developed at the Australian National University.
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60 Minutes CBS (USA) spoke to Dr Joelle Gergis from the Fenner School of Environment & Society about the link between the recent summer bushfires and climate change.
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A new paper in Nature Sustainability looks at the concept of planetary boundaries, and assesses what are critical levels of interference in that Earth system process and how it will affect other systems. Dr Steven Lade was one of the authors of the paper.
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An ANU project wants to connect Australians with the Murray-Darling and shed light on the waterways' health by capturing its sights and sounds. ABC Radio National Breakfast spoke to Fenner scientists.
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Ecologists say the bushfires have done such damage to the Kosciuszko National Park that if brumbies aren't culled they'll wipe out native species. Triple j's 'Hack' program gives the latest on this long-running debate, chatting to Professor Jamie Pittock.
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Opinion piece - Despite all of the earth observation data being used to retrieve critical fire information over our current fire crisis, Australia can definitely do better by launching its own space mission targeted to meet fire management requirements.