As Australians look for their next holiday destination, spare a thought for the local communities and environment where you are travelling.

Two major monitoring projects, led by researchers from CSU’s Institute for Land, Water and Society will help governments and managers deliver environmental water to maximise environmental benefits in the Murray-Darling Basin.

This year's crop of Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management graduates from Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will feature more pony-tails than stubble, reflecting the fact that more women are joining the industry than ever before.

Food security has been flagged as one of the most serious issues to face the world in coming years, with predictions that by the year 2050 the world’s population will hit nine billion.

Social researchers from Canada and the United States will join Australian collaborators, including CSU academics, when they visit the NSW-Victorian Border region at the end of October to investigate how to build trust between communities prone to serious bushfires and fire management agencies.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange and the NSW Department of Primary Industries will host a visit by Chinese officials as part of an ongoing project to restore China’s crippled grasslands to sustainable grazing condition.

A $48.6 million hub for research and education in plant and animal sciences, food production and security, animal health, and water and environmental sciences will be officially opened at CSU in Wagga Wagga on Friday 21 September.

A CSU expert on the carbon tax has hailed the federal government decision to join the European carbon trading scheme in 2015 as "just good economic sense".

Although regarded as destructive pests that kill trees and devalue habitats, the parasitic mistletoe has been found to have another side by CSU researchers.