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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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Professor David Lindenmayer is working to advance conservation science while maintaining a positive place for young scientists to develop their careers.
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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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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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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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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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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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This frisbee-obsessed, four-legged ecologist has a special role to play in her owner's PhD research.
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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.