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ENVIRONMENT & WATER
Home > Latest News > Environment & Water Restoring endangered woodlands 13 Oct 2008
Practical solutions to restore one of Australia’s most threatened ecosystems – the endangered white box grassy woodlands of south eastern Australia – is the aim of researchers from CSIRO and Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) Better management to alleviate the effects of climate change 13 Oct 2008
A leading Australian scientist, recognised internationally for his work in wetlands, says better management of the world’s wetlands will help alleviate the effects of climate change. Final Garnaut Report offers climate change hope 01 Oct 2008
The final report of 'The Garnaut Climate Change Review', released on Tuesday 30 September, offers a constructive way forward, according to a senior CSU academic. Forestry to play a major role in carbon emissions trading 30 Sep 2008
Forestry is now part of the new economy in a world coping with carbon pollution, says a leading CSU forestry researcher. 19 Sep 2008
The establishment of a drought monitoring system in Australia using remote sensing tools is one project catching the attention of the new head of the International Centre of WATER for Food Security at CSU. Echoes of the Past, Voices of the Future 01 Sep 2008
In the mid-1860s many hardworking German farmers left South Australia to select cheap farming land in the fertile Southern Riverina region of NSW. 28 Aug 2008
A CSU academic has likened any plans to sell off Travelling Stock Reserves to "selling off NSW’s Crown jewels in a garage sale". Climate change: a threat to food security 18 Aug 2008
Climate change is seriously threatening the ability of regional Australia to produce food for export to countries facing food shortages. 18 Aug 2008
Many Australians in recent years have questioned the continued relevance of state governments in the Australian political and government landscape, says a CSU academic. 12 Aug 2008
Frog populations are declining world-wide, and while a great deal of attention has been paid to factors like disease, the loss of natural habitat remains the single greatest threat to amphibian populations. Despite this, we know very little about how frogs respond to habitat changes, particularly altered water regimes or how to manage wetland flooding regimes to increase their chances of survival. |
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