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Research stories

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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A nose for ecology

How an ecologist's dog transformed her PhD project.

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Group of wallabies eating
Monday, 06 Jan 2025
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We need more fox-free safe havens and greater collaboration between government and landowners to ensure the survival of the Parma wallaby.

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illustration of mountain landscape
Tuesday, 17 Dec 2024
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When scientists observed snow gums dying in huge numbers, they immediately suspected a beetle might be the culprit. The next step seemed easy: catch some beetles. But 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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Woman with a dog
Thursday, 12 Dec 2024
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Protecting their pack is what these dogs have been bred to do.

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A patchwork of spinnifex grass in a red desert environment.
Wednesday, 16 Oct 2024
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Since colonisation, cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.

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Tracks of a dusky hopping mouse found in red sand.
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
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For many years, scientists have been working with Indigenous people in the desert to record these observations in a systematic way. New research collates this data.

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Researcher, Xuemei Bai, stands in front of the Fenner building with a grass tree beside her.
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
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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, scientists say in a new report.

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A Fenner researcher, Shoshana Rapley, kneels with her dog on her leg and looks at her, with woodland in the background.
Thursday, 12 Sep 2024
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This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.

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A daylight image of a dam surrounded by reeds and grass with new trees planted around the perimeter.
Monday, 22 Jul 2024
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Managing the water quality of farm dams is critical to the health of livestock as well as boosting crop production, according to new research from the ANU Sustainable Farms group.

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A dark morph Eastern Quoll sits wrapped in a blanket in the hands of an ecologist at night with a spotlight shining on it.
Thursday, 04 Jul 2024
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GPS tracking collars revealed how newly reintroduced eastern quolls are being welcomed with open paws.

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