3 Jul 2014

Research by Fenner School scholars published last week in the prestigious journal Climatic Change quantifies the trade-offs between sustaining water resources...

25 Feb 2014

Long-distance travel lets species track comfortable climates.

23 Oct 2013

in Australia there has been a lack of Long-term ecological studies, with few running more than 25 years and even less of those replicating plots from different...

24 Jan 2013

After much hard work I had the good fortune to find that the Fenner School was home to Professor Robert Heinsohn, who had previously done research with lions...

23 Jan 2013

Humanity faces the daunting challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050. Experts forecast that by then, about 70 per cent of the population will live in...

23 Jan 2013

The growth of China’s cities is increasing wealth in the country, but it's coming at a cost. The economic boom is forcing farmers to move aside and make...

23 Jan 2013

PhD scholar Kevin MacFarlane is investigating why Central Kalahari lions enter areas in and around farms and kill livestock.

23 Jan 2013

A research team led by Professor Peter Kanowski and Dr Kulala Mulung is conducting a five-year study in the province that seeks to support the local balsa...

23 Jan 2013

Dr Geoff Cary, who leads an international consortium of bushfire computer modellers, is looking at the impacts of fire around the world.

23 Jan 2013

Dr Matthew Brookhouse uses tree ring samples to document the growth chronology of individual trees, building a comprehensive climate record and fire history...

23 Jan 2013

The sky was a deep red hue. Dust from Australia’s barren ‘red centre’ had blown across and blanketed much of the continent’s east coast, including Sydney.

23 Jan 2013

The Mulligans Flat and Goorooyarroo Woodland Experiment aims to understand ways of restoring the structure and function of temperate woodlands to increase...