Managing native vegetation and improving river catchment health will be made easier for land holders, land managers, Landcare groups, government staff and the general community with the release of the Native Vegetation Management Guide for the Riverina, compiled by Charles Sturt University staff and private consultant Rick Webster.

In just seven days, vacant land near Ganmain will become a meeting place for Australians of all cultural backgrounds, in an environmentally friendly gesture from volunteers from around the world.

Biotechnology research in regional New South Wales will be under the public spotlight at a joint event by Charles Sturt University and Wagga Wagga City Council next month.

Just how effective are environmental flows in restoring health to our inland waterways? 

Native grasses, shrubs and trees in agricultural regions face a major decline unless great care is taken in grazing roadside reserves and stock routes as drought spreads across south-eastern Australia.

Charles Sturt University is playing a leading role in salinity research and education as a key participant in the new Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity.

The Federal Minister for Education, Dr Brendan Nelson has reaffirmed his commitment to the importance of regional universities in a speech to Charles Sturt University staff and researchers from the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre.

It's time for Australia to develop a system of agriculture that is truly Australian, not a modified European method some 200 years old, says Charles Sturt University soil and water researcher, Dr Ben Wilson.

New evidence has been found to explain why Australia’s eucalypts are able to bounce back so successfully after bushfires – such as those that ravaged NSW at Christmas.