An academic paper co-authored by a CSU academic highlighting the greater value people place on wetlands near the Coorong in South Australia compared to surrounding bushlands has been awarded top prize by environment academics from Australia and New Zealand.

National Water Week focuses Australia on issues that affect one of the nation’s most precious and most scarce resources - water.

A CSU expert on river ecology and dam operations has advised the federal Coalition’s Dams Taskforce currently visiting the NSW-Victoria border on sustainable dam planning and operations.

A CSU research team is investigating how communities cope with natural disasters such as bushfire and drought, as seen in recent years in Beechworth and Bendigo in Victoria.

A CSU researcher has hailed the focus on direct engagement with Murray Darling Basin communities, as highlighted in the draft Murray Darling Basin Plan released by the Murray Darling Basin Authority, as a step in the right direction.

Three graduation ceremonies to be staged by CSU will be held for the first time in Thurgoona from this Friday morning, 16 December.

A constitutional challenge to the new Federal mining tax by mining magnate Mr Andrew Forrest is highly likely to fail, according to a CSU constitutional law expert.

Research that questioned the effectiveness of public funding for repairing environmental damage over the past 20 years has resulted in mixed answers, says a lead researcher in the recently completed Landscape Logic project, CSU's Professor Allan Curtis.

Climate change is expected to have a major impact on the health of rivers in South Eastern Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin. The emphasis to date seems to have been on environmental flows as a means of keeping our rivers healthy, but what are the other options and are they practical and cost-effective?