News: Environment, sustainability and climate change

We forget the lessons of past disasters at our own peril

We forget the lessons of past disasters at our own peril

In the context of the terrible fires facing the nation, the telling reflection that 鈥淭hose who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it鈥 has salience.

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Bushfire and the challenge to respond to new levels of environmental risk

Bushfire and the challenge to respond to new levels of environmental risk

There have been terrible bushfires this summer across southern Australia 鈥 and they are still going. Part of the reason for this disaster is the unprecedented climatic conditions that the country has been facing, including record hot and dry conditions.

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Urban rainwater harvesting in 'smart' south Asian cities

South asian laundry with buckets, harvesting rain water

Urban South Asia needs water鈥攁 lot of it, and while most of this water comes from over-extraction of groundwater and interbasin transfers, the future ability to rely on these resources is now in question.

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Preventing biodiversity change with natural laboratories

Close up photo of fossils

With our support, the International Panel for Climate Change has now documented the effects of global climate change on every biome on earth.

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A little water can go a long way when battling heatwaves

White wine crops in daylight

It appears that how you use water is more important than how much you use when trying to protect vines from the impact of聽heatwaves.

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Amazon fires a call to action

Amazon fires a call to action

Fires raging through the Amazon rainforest are the latest and most visible manifestation of the urgent need to conserve and protect the natural world and address climate change.

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Exploring the past to conserve the future

Exploring the past to conserve the future

Conserving global biodiversity and preventing extinction is as much about digging into the past as it is about finding the new.

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Surviving and thriving in the sea

Selective focus photo of Octopus

Sixty years of global cephalopod success provides clues to better management of marine ecology.

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