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Green superheroes of the sea: how wetland plants are tackling climate change

Wetland vegetation – like seagrass, mangroves and marshes – can store twice as much carbon as a hectare of tropical forest. These grasses and trees of the sea could hold the key to a low carbon future.

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It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been politically fraught and mired in scandal. But environmental monitoring suggests that the health of the rivers is indeed improving – even if it will take decades.

Fighting creepy with crawly

Spiders rank pretty low on most people’s ‘animals I’d like to work with’ scale. But this 'recovering arachnophobe' is putting her fears aside for science.

How green is your bread?

Have you ever stopped to consider the environmental impact of everyday items like a loaf of bread?

Water, earth, air: scientists in their elements

Our scientists are measuring the air, water and soil to better understand potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing in coal seam gas (CSG) production.

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Devourer of worlds: two of the worst pests have hybridised into a global ‘mega-pest’

The remarkably flexible cotton bollworm has overcome most insecticides and devoured global crop staples, and has now landed on the previously untarnished New World, there, with hybridisation now possible—it's a race against time for researchers to map its genome and find the genetic flaws to put a halt on its calamitous appetite.

Hot on the tracks of feral animals in the Top End

Our new tracking tech is helping manage the impacts of feral buffaloes and pigs in Arnhem Land.

Backing the bouncing bandicoot over the Easter bunny

We have a bit of a complicated relationship with rabbits so instead of the bunny this year, we're backing the bandicoot for Easter.

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Birds in Their Habitats: Journeys with a Naturalist

Birds in Their Habitats: Journeys with a Naturalist, has Fraser combining humour and travel yarns (backed with sound scientific knowledge) revealing the secret lives, habits and skills of the incredible winged creatures.

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Bi-lingual app helps Indigenous rangers track threatened species

Can you imagine trying to do your job in another language? Warlpiri rangers can now track threatened species in either English or their first language, Walpiri, thanks to the bi-lingual Tracks App.

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National Eucalyptus Day: Five things you might not know about these flowering giants

Eucalyptus are uniquely Australia, with 894 of the 900 varieties native to our continent. This National Eucalyptus Day, we’re celebrating these wonderful trees and the services they provide for our atmosphere and ecosystems.

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Research and chill: the challenges of working in Antarctica

Sure it has come pretty sweet scenery but there are some downsides to working in the coldest place on the planet.

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