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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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Three exemplar Fenner educators received nominations for Vice Chancellors Awards - making The Fenner School the most nominated for education excellence of any College of Systems and Society School.
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Hydropower is rapidly expanding in the Himalayan region of South Asia, with the International Energy Agency projecting that India’s installed hydropower will more than double between 2021 and 2050.
- Decoloyarns
What is it about Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu that is so polarising? As PhD scholars and early career researchers we feel compelled to ask this question of our fellow academics.
- Education story
The greater glider is a combination of a lemur and a cat. They can soar up to 100 metres through the air. Dr Kara Youngentob from ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society says they are hard to spot in eucalypt forests.
- Decoloyarns
Everything settler-colonists write, everything settler-colonists research, has an opportunity to be decolonised. That's right: there are no loopholes, no exceptions.
- News
Described as an "environmental despot", Jair Bolsonaro's election defeat has been welcomed by climate change scientists and activists.
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Southeast Australia’s bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.
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A story from the early days of the Abbott government still circulates in the halls of Parliament House.
- Decoloyarns
This article is a response to a piece of feedback the Decoloyarns editorial team received from a reader. They told us “you talk about decolonisation in your articles without saying what you think it means”.