Two early-career environmental scientists are receiving a boost from the Australian Academy of Science with funding for their projects to enable bushfire risk to be mapped from space, and to conserve one of our most endangered animals.
Governments across South-East Asia have programs to intensify rice production but researchers from ANU and other institutions are arguing for the conservation of the traditional, once-per-year crop of floating rice in Myanmar.
Dr Ceridwen Fraser has been looking at the immediate impact of the recent earthquake, and how that disturbance has affected patterns of biological diversity in kelp.