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Legumes are the least well known source of fibre, but they may be the most important for human health. Dey/Flickr

November 25, 2013

Health Check: are you eating the right sorts of fibre?

David Topping, CSIRO; Arwen Cross, CSIRO, and Christopher Hammang, CSIRO

Six out of ten Australians don’t eat enough fibre, and even more don’t get the right combination of fibres. Eating dietary fibre - food components (mostly derived from plants) that resist human digestive…

“If we don’t evaluate our impact we risk becoming our own worst enemies.” mollybob

July 4, 2013

Ring the changes on science communication

Craig Cormick, CSIRO and Arwen Cross, CSIRO

Public concerns about issues such as wind farms and vaccines have led to a discussion about why some people have strong fears or adverse reactions, and why their perception of risk doesn’t align with those…

Getting the right information, in the right format, can be the difference between life and death. Fox News Insider

April 21, 2013

Disasters happen, but software shouldn’t be one of them

Ryan Fraser, CSIRO and Arwen Cross, CSIRO

Imagine you’re a disaster manager and a large earthquake has just struck off the Australian coast. You know that part of the Australian coastline is about to be inundated by a tsunami but you need more…

Overuse of nitrogen fertiliser can have nasty environmental consequences. eutrophication&hypoxia/Flickr

November 4, 2012

Agriculture’s hunger for nitrogen oversteps planetary boundaries

Trevor Garnett, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and Arwen Cross, CSIRO

Planet Earth has boundaries for its biophysical subsystems. By 2009, we had already exceeded three of the boundaries – climate change, biodiversity loss, and the nitrogen cycle. Climate change is a top-of-mind…

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