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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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Path to prosperity for planet and people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared: report.

Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet.

 
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A nose for ecology

How an ecologist's dog transformed her PhD project.

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Joelle Gergis
Monday, 18 Mar 2019
  • News

New Fenner climate science lecturer Dr Joelle Gergis discusses her work in the climate change sphere in this Q&A.

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Friday, 08 Mar 2019
  • News

Claudia Munera has penned this heartfelt piece following the loss of her friend and colleague, Javier Maldonado who was in Colombia working in the field. Claudia honours his memory and celebrates his passion for life and scientific research.

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Two Palm Cockatoos in a tree
Friday, 08 Mar 2019
  • News

Did you know that the Palm Cockato is one of the few birds in the world that uses a tool as musical instrument? Fenner's Professor Rob Heinsohn said the rare bird could be extinct within a decade unless urgent action is taken to protect its habitat.

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Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019
  • News

As one of the expert witnesses to the Royal Commission, Dr Marshall welcomed the way the Commission dealt with her evidence in the Indigenous engagement chapter, as well as the evidence provided to the Commission by senior Aboriginal witnesses from the Basin and other experts.

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Meena Sritharan with a rare plant
Monday, 18 Feb 2019
  • Student profile

What makes a plant rare? Simply being hard to find, or even endangered? It was this question that Fenner PhD student Meena Sritharan is searching for an answer to.

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Dr van Rooyen
Monday, 04 Feb 2019
  • News

Led by scientists at the Australian National University in partnership with Australian and African based universities and R&D organizations, new research is changing the way small scale irrigation systems are run in nations like Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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The Great Cumbung Swamp
Friday, 01 Feb 2019
  • News

A new joint venture between the Nature Conservancy Australia (TNC) and Tiverton Agriculture to purchase land for conservation will protect almost the entire extent of the Great Cumbung Swamp from irrigated cropping.

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Tuesday, 11 Dec 2018
  • Education story

When you're surviving your Doctorate, being focused on a single discipline while surrounded by experts and students who come from different fields can be enriching, but also isolating. Here's how an economist and an ecologist discovered they could get through their PhDs together.

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Friday, 23 Nov 2018
  • News

Over one weekend in Spring, two academics at Fenner take on very different approaches to trees and conservation in Canberra.

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