Search results for bushfires
Bushfire resilience: preparing yourself and your property
18th December 2015
Building bushfire resilience to preserve life and property requires consideration of buildings, individuals, communities and the environment.
Bushfire basics: what you need to know
17th December 2015
What are the key factors in how a bushfire behaves? And what can we do to influence them, and mitigate our chance of harm?
GovHack: All your data are belong to us
3rd July 2015
Groups of skilled hackers are congregating in cities around Australia, and they're hell-bent on forcing government data to do their bidding, including ours. They're participants in this year’s GovHack competition.
Five ways CSIRO has your back over summer
12th December 2014
We're helping make your summer better from keeping mozzies at bay to serving up better food and wine.
The science of living with fire
5th November 2014
The bushfire season isn’t wasting any time this year. There are already large fires in South Australia and NSW, and […]
Explainer: El Niño and La Niña
20th June 2014
By Jaci Brown, CSIRO We wait in anticipation of droughts and floods when El Niño and La Niña are forecast […]
Drought in store as El Niño’s western cousin to grow stronger
13th June 2014
By Agus Santoso and Wenju Cai, CSIRO Over the past few months, a lot of attention has been paid to […]
The economics of adaptation: protecting people, prosperity and environment in a warming world
31st March 2014
By Dr Paul E Hardisty For a long time, people were hesitant to discuss adapting to climate change. Some called […]
Should we be preparing for an El Niño in 2014?
21st February 2014
By Wenju Cai, Principal Research Scientist, Wealth from Oceans Flagship Recently speculation has been rife that the end of 2014 […]
Explainer – What are heatwaves?
20th February 2014
It's likely human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century, due to increases in greenhouse gases.
How oceans help predict extreme weather
29th November 2013
Imagine if we could better predict when Australia could be hit by that awful dry hot weather that makes us […]
Fighting fire with (artificial) intelligence
28th November 2013
By James Davidson Cylons, Skynet, HAL 9000, Agent Smith, Haley Joel Osment. With characters like these, it’s no wonder people […]