The Australian landscape is very old and the soils in inland areas can be very fragile.
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Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Big data open-access publishing and other advances offer ecologists the ability to forecast events like pest outbreaks over days and seasons rather than decades. But scholars need to seize this opportunity.
Ordinary grey bird feathers placed under X-ray fluorescence reveal beautiful patterns of elements like zinc, telling a story of feather growth and the environments the birds have experienced.
How the dustiest place on Earth fuels the biodiversity of the Amazon and causes mud rain in Europe.
Americans love their lawns but are lawns good for America, particularly in drought-stricken areas? A look at our grassy love affair and what might be better alternatives.
The Bellinger River Snapping Turtle is under threat of extinction, and it suggests something very wrong with the whole ecosystem.
Trees are more like us than you might think. They even have a pulse. They just operate over much slower timescales.
MPs call for a revamp of GM regulations, after finding “no greater inherent risk” with GM crops compared to conventional ones.
The future of Australia’s climate and respect for environmental science stand to be the biggest losers in all of the forms of class-mobilised politicisation that are impacting Australia currently. Somewhere…
It might seem strange to some that dust from the Sahara is falling on their cars in England. Stranger still, that Saharan sand is mixing with general air pollution from both continental Europe and the…
It’s been established that enjoying green spaces in otherwise grey urban areas can lead to improved mental health for city-dwellers. But new research has revealed how surprisingly quickly those benefits…
If anything good is to come from the devastation caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Australia’s Montara oil and gas leak the year before, it is that we learn from our mistakes…
It doesn’t matter whether or not you think it’s fair: if you’re an academic, your publishing record will have a crucial impact on your career. It can profoundly affect your prospects for employment, for…
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Director, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
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Visiting Research Fellow in Mineral Chemistry, University of Derby
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Professor, James Cook University
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Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York
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Adjunct Research Scientist in Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Chair professor, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Associate Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
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Biodiversity and climate change researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Director, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University
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Professor of Urban Management and Planning, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, Macquarie University
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Professor, Western Sydney University