Each community in the Murray Darling Basin should have a greater say in how they react to the decreasing availability of water around them, according to a group of CSU researchers who work extensively with these communities on issues such as drought and soil salinity.

CSU, in association with three Chinese educational institutions has been successful in obtaining an Australian Leadership Awards – Fellowships for four leading Chinese academics to enhance their capacity in measuring environmental pollution and identifying appropriate pollution controls.

Climate change will make it even more difficult to manage wetlands sustainably in the Murray-Darling Basin, according to Australian and international wetlands experts who will meet in Canberra next week for an intensive workshop hosted by CSU.

Significant rain in parts of southern NSW during late summer has provided a timely opportunity for work to begin on a study into rain-filled wetlands being conducted by researchers from CSU.

A dozen international guests from countries including China, India, the Netherlands and Pakistan will visit CSU in Wagga Wagga for the opening next week of new facilities for the International Centre of Water for Food Security.

What started as a visit to a remote Aleutian island by a CSU academic from Australia has grown to become a major exhibition highlighting the little known Aleutian campaign fought during the Second World War between US and Japanese forces.

Farmers looking at past rainfall records continue to wait for the 'autumn break', but late summer rain is becoming more common and is useful for cheaply reinvigorating Australian pastures, said a CSU researcher.

The forthcoming Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to restore the ailing river system, say more than 30 of Australia’s leading freshwater scientists in a statement made on Thursday 11 March.

An iconic eucalypt tree growing in many areas burnt out in Victoria’s Black Saturday fires is better at re-sprouting after fire than first thought, says a senior botanist at CSU.