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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.
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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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In this emotive piece, Award-winning climate scientist and Fenner professor Joëlle Gergis outlines the dire state of the climate crisis with a thought-provoking article in The Monthly.
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Master of Environment student Yulia Cuthbertson writes about her experience at the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting for International Forestry Student Association in South Korea .
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About 92,000 kilograms of kangaroo carcass has ended up at the tip after the most recent cull wrapped up on Friday. Fenner academics Dr George Wilson and Dr David Lindenmayer offer their expert opinions to the Canberra Times, stating more needs to be done to prevent such a waste of viable meat.
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Kristi Lee, a Githabul Bundjalung woman and ANU graduate, has received the ‘Caring for Country’ award at the 2019 ACT NAIDOC Awards.
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Fenner School professor Dr Peter Kanowski is one of the most renowned researchers worldwide in the field of international forest governance - and just recently was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Freiburg Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Without bees, dinners could look very different and cost a lot more than they do today. Professor Saul Cunningham talks to to News Corp about the importance of bees to our agriculture systems.
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Fenner School climate scientist Dr Joelle Gergis says the current pledges of the Paris Agreement are no where near enough to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees. This especially leaves Northern Australia vulnerable to more intense cyclones and heatwaves.
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Long extinct in the wild in the ACT, the New Holland mouse might be set to make a comeback, with plans for an "insurance" population at Canberra's Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
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A 2017 report found the bush capital had lost 10 per cent of its urban canopy cover between 2009 and 2016. The government is set to plant 17,000 trees over the next four years to help restore Canberra's declining canopy cover.