The danger of fires in the Cape region this season is partly dependent on how the Fynbos has been managed over the past few decades.
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How will important habitats recover from the wildfires which been blazing through moorland in northern England?
Greening cities have a huge impact. The trees go beyond just lowering temperatures. They help decrease the demand for indoor cooling like air-conditioners saving money.
Legal vegetation ‘thinning’ is contributing to high rates of land clearing, potentially causing problems for threatened species and ecosystems.
Africa’s great green wall suffers from a major mismatch between ambition and effort. But that’s not to say it should be ditched altogether.
Extreme weather will affect people and animals, as well as whole ecosystems. Research using satellites shows that ecosystems worldwide are vulnerable to collapse.
Constant, complex changes in cities and mine sites are hard to monitor. Drawing on digital aerial photography, it’s now possible to track land-use and vegetation changes in areas as small as 10-20cm.
Do animals mind how densely vegetated their habitat is? Numbers of birds, reptiles and mammals have been recorded in sites…
The first Australians hunted giant kangaroos, rhinoceros-sized marsupials, huge goannas and other megafauna to extinction shortly after arriving in the country more than 40,000 years ago, new research…
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Director, Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, Australian National University
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Research Associate in Ecological Resilience, Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Landscape Ecologist, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW
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Adjunct Research Scientist, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Research Fellow, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Assistant in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Research Chair, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Doctorant en sciences de l'environnement, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Future Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong