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The green Sahara
Edward Armstrong | January 8, 2024Eccentricities in Earth’s orbit help explain why the Sahara desert has waxed and waned over the course of millions of years.
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An eye on Australia’s ‘seafood basket’
Open Forum | December 11, 2023A biologically rich region that provides much of the country’s seafood will be the first site in Australia to test the effectiveness of CSIRO’s AquaWatch technology.
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Why biodiversity matters
Open Forum | November 28, 2023A year on from the COP15 summit of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a new book by UQ ecologist Nigel Dudley builds a case for “Why Biodiversity Matters” and why we should care if species go extinct.
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Farming carbon
Rachel Standish | November 24, 2023Farmers have cleared much of Australia’s natural vegetation over the last two hundred years, and while carbon credits have been exploited for private gain rather than public good, replanting schemes can help restore our land and atmosphere to a more sustainable balance.
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Amphibian apocalypse
Open Forum | October 29, 2023Forty percent of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction according to a global study published in the scientific journal Nature.
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A new tool to tackle seafood fraud
Lilly Matson | October 22, 2023A new handheld scanner uses nuclear methods and mathematical models to determine the origin and production of seafood.
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Farming the sea
Open Forum | October 20, 2023Floating sea farms could help feed the world in the future, according to a new study by University of South Australia researchers.
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By gum
Gregory Moore | October 12, 2023As climate change intensifies, city planners are looking for resilient street trees able to provide cooling shade in a hotter climate such as the Spotted Gum.
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More food with fewer emissions
Alan Stevenson | October 4, 2023Agriculture generates about a quarter of the world’s total greenhouse emissions but new research shows it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, agriculture could become not carbon neutral, but carbon negative in a couple of decades.
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Rethinking rice
Alan Stevenson | September 26, 2023Rice is a staple crop feeding much of the world’s population, but new cultivation methods which require less water, preserve the soil and reduce carbon emissions will be required in a hotter, drier world transformed by climate change.
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The negatives of ‘nature positive’
Martine Maron | September 26, 2023The “nature positive” slogan adopted by companies and developers all too often greenwashes their activities without affecting their profits or business models, with dubious paper offsets no recompense for the environmental damage they cause.
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Greening the desert
Open Forum | September 25, 2023Growing plants that have adapted to desert life could help naturally capture and store carbon, according to a perspective piece by international researchers.