A survey of groundwater users in the Namoi catchment in northern NSW by CSU researchers has found that more than 75 percent feel they are not able to adapt to further cuts in ground and surface water entitlements as suggested by the Murray Darling Basin Authority.

Much greater effort is needed if we are to stop the loss and degradation of the world's biodiversity according to the latest assessment report on the world's environment, the fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5), released on Wednesday 6 June. Director of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society, Professor Max Finlayson, was a co-ordinating lead author of the report's chapter on biodiversity.

CSU researchers have found the release of 'environmental water' from dams at selected times in 2011 had significant benefits for wetland plants and animals in the mid- Murrumbidgee wetlands.

A CSU researcher has welcomed todays addition of koalas in Queensland, NSW, and the ACT to the national threatened species list.

A carbon tax expert from CSU believes Australia needs to fundamentally change the way the economy works to make a difference in the nation’s carbon emissions, not just have a carbon tax imposed.

Although Indigenous people presently manage around 20 per cent of the Australian continent, one CSU academic believes there is an opportunity to do more.

The highly anticipated draft plan setting out how water will be managed in the Murray Darling Basin will be released on Monday 28 November and CSU has commentators available to provide analysis.

With the passage of the carbon tax legislation through the Senate, Australia has become the 33rd country to introduce a price on carbon, joining all the major European countries and New Zealand, along with major cities in China and groups of states and provinces in the United States of America and Canada.

The Labor government has introduced its carbon tax legislation into the federal parliament and CSU has experts available to comment on the tax and what it might mean for everyday Australians and for the future of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.