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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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Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University has shown.
- Research story
A new project seeks to rewrite this period of history – and others – to honour the voices and experiences of Aboriginal people whose contributions to colonial-era expeditions have long been overlooked.
- Research story
What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? New research answers these questions for Australian birds.
- News
Disturbing natural forests with activities such as logging and prescribed burning can make them more flammable, landmark research from The Australian National University (ANU) and Curtin University has found.
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Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.
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On the 13th December, many of our students took to the stage to receive a special piece of paper and celebrate the end of their degrees.
- Student profile
Isobel Bender is graduating with a PhB (Honours) having made what her supervisor Professor Jamie Pittock calls “an unprecedented impact on the public good as an undergraduate researcher”.
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This week, the Senate is debating changes to Australia’s most important water laws. These changes seek to rescue the ailing A$13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan to improve the health of our nation’s largest river system.