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.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange is expecting a new addition soon as its resident pair of Peregrine Falcons, Beau and Swift, prepare for this season’s single egg to hatch.

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.

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.

Young academic Nick Klomp wasn’t sure how long he would stay when he first joined CSU in 1991. But that was over 20 years ago, and Nick has grown to lead one of the largest faculties in Australia.

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.