Does living close to Nature really make a person feel better and improve their well-being? Does it matter what your local neighbourhood environment is like?

Fulfillling human needs using the ways in which nature benefits humans, or 'nature's services', could protect endangered plants and animals in the world’s poorest regions, says a leading CSU ecological researcher.

A senior CSU researcher has expressed disappointment with the delay to Australia’s carbon emissions trading scheme until 2011 announced on Monday 4 May by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

A CSU study looking at how rural landholders are responding to climate change or variability has found landholders who are traditional farmers are more optimistic about their ability to respond to future market and climatic conditions than 'lifestyle' landholders.

Australian eucalypts have again shown how well adapted they are to dealing with bushfires, according to research from CSU and Charles Darwin University.

CSU sociologist Dr Angela Ragusa believes tree changers are moving to rural areas because they are stressed and they perceive a country life-style will be less stressful.

Australia has failed to deliver on its obligation under the international Ramsar Convention to protect its wetlands, according to a senior wetland ecologist and environmental scientist at CSU.

Ecologists from CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society have joined forces with Australia's largest almond producer Select Harvests Limited to the look for ways to better manage agricultural landscapes to maximise production and conservation outcomes.

New research by CSU suggests that social and economic conditions are so difficult in the Murray Darling Basin that researchers are calling for a treaty between government and the people and communities of the region.