#land and water

Image of a burnover experiment conducted by Justin Leonard where the house is beginning to ignite.

Meet our researcher: Justin Leonard

Justin Leonard’s job is to burn down houses so we can learn how best to protect them from bushfires.

Brown sludge in a creek

How bushfires and rain turned our waterways into ‘cake mix’, and what we can do about it

After the Black Summer bushfires, heavy rains extinguished many fires but turned high quality water in our rivers to sludge. This is how we can better prepare for next time.

Yellow flowers grow across the ground

How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista

After Queensland’s drought-breaking rain, we surveyed private farmland to find dried-out woodlands transformed into flower-filled, park-like landscapes.