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More clouds could mean less rain in Australia
Kim Reid | December 6, 2019A giant, continent-sized cloud that dumps rain from Broome to Hobart has increased in frequency over the past 33 years, but its impact may not be what you expect.
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A splash of green can banish the blues
Kathleen Wolf | December 5, 2019Urban greening is emerging as a key part of the solution to some of our major health and environmental challenges. Here are eight ways to bring a little bit of nature to our city lives.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Malini Sur | November 23, 2019The dust and smoke blanketing our cities challenges our usual ways of thinking about bush, farm, industry, rich city and poor city divides.
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We’re not powerless in the face of bushfires
Paul Read | November 15, 2019The fires devastating Australia – and other regions of the world – are a direct or indirect consequence of human actions, and so we also have the power to prevent them, if we choose to act.
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The great outdoors
Open Forum | November 14, 2019Australia’s national parks are worth about $145 billion a year in the improved mental health of their visitors, according to initial estimates published by a team of Griffith University researchers.
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The burning season
Open Forum | November 12, 2019The early-season bushfires in Queensland and NSW and ‘catastrophic’ conditions around Sydney are a worrying sign of more to come over the summer.
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Restoring the balance of nature
Open Forum | November 9, 2019A group of international conservationists is urging governments across the globe to adopt a new approach to address the impact of economic development on the natural world.
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It’s not ‘wild dog’ management – we’re just killing dingoes
Open Forum | November 4, 2019Dingo or just wild dog? A new study busts the misconception that pure dingoes are extinct in NSW – and finds several ‘dingo hotspots’ around the state.
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Swan-song for the honey-eater
Open Forum | November 1, 2019The genetic history of a critically endangered songbird shows its best chance of survival is to protect its rapidly disappearing habitat.
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Australia’s silent spring
Martine Maron | October 30, 2019Vast areas of native Australian vegetation continue to be cleared for our cities, farms and infrastructure, threatening once common birds as well as the endangered species protected, to some extent, by legislation.
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Managing the hidden water beneath our feet
Rebecca Nelson | October 23, 2019Decision-makers have significant discretion when it comes to regulating groundwater, but there is too little transparency about how it is used and its effect on the local environment.
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Let’s use our nature strips for nature
Adrian Marshall | October 19, 2019Given that more than a third of our public green space is nature strip, many small actions of residents by planting and caring for appropriate trees can add up to substantial positive change for wildlife and the human environment.