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Should science – and scientists – have a greater influence on public policy, specifically environmental policy, in Australia? If so, how might this be achieved? ...

Australian ecosystem science is changing. At a time when the need for science to help understand and solve ecosystem problems has never been greater, our ...

As the world progresses towards a global economy that takes account of carbon, there is an obvious need to improve our understanding of the rates ...

Elder Mary Kolkiwarra sharing her intimate understanding of the Arnhem Plateau (Photo by Sam Betley-Toon) Connections between age-old Aboriginal ecological knowledge and contemporary science and technology may ...

Alan Noble, the Engineering Director for Google Australia and New Zealand, has many passions, among them sailing and writing web apps for fun, and two ...

A corner post marks the edge of a plot in a forest of tall (60m+) karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) in the Warren region of Western Australia (Photo by Sam ...

For the residents of Richmond in Sydney’s western suburbs, the peculiar sight of cranes and other structures rising from their local woodland has become normal. ...

Fires burn across Kakadu savanna Northern Australian know-how on controlling burning in savannas to minimise the release of carbon to the atmosphere is about to ...

More than 600 of Australia’s ecologists descended on Melbourne for the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) from 3 to 7 December. ...

We’ve just released the first detailed program for the 2013 TERN Symposium. It’s a packed two-day schedule with over 100 presenters from a huge range ...