We’re working to discover, enhance and sustain marine ecosystems and maximise the benefits from Australia’s marine territory.
The findings are in our latest annual national survey on Australians' attitudes to climate change, covering over 5000 people from across Australia.
It sounds like a bad sci-fi plot: a fleet of ‘bio robots’ are let loose in the world’s third largest ocean to study its physical and biological makeup.
Research into the potential cooling effect due to vegetation by Dr Chen and his colleagues at CSIRO and Nursery & Garden Industry Australia, found that Melbourne’s CBD summer temperatures could be lowered by 0.7°C if CBD vegetation was increased significantly.
So, what are your plans for the Christmas and New Years break? Eating? Camping? Lounging? Lazing? Good for you. Merry […]
It’s April 2011, summer is well and truly over and Betty*, a juvenile white shark, has just surfaced off […]
By Carlie Devine A new digital X-ray unit is creating sublime images that are helping taxonomists sort the fish from […]
The newly-published book ‘Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a hot world’, edited by University of Melbourne Associate Professor Peter Christoff, provides an update of the expected consequences of a four-degree world.
An international team of scientists has confirmed links between an Indian Ocean phenomenon and extreme weather events in southeast Australia.
Imagine if we could better predict when Australia could be hit by that awful dry hot weather that makes us […]
Diversified cropping, village food processing and flexible seaweed culture are some of the new approaches being trialed by small farmers and fishermen on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa to improve their livelihoods and prepare for the combined effects of climate change and population pressure.
Every six years, some of the world’s top scientific thinkers comprehensively assess what is known about climate change. The end result is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Several CSIRO scientists are among the lead authors.
It’s a face only a mother-blobfish could love. The raw ugliness of the blobfish is now award-winning. The unfortunate […]
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