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Australian school students are experimenting with 'space veggies' in a NASA initiative
Astronauts living and working on the Moon will need something to eat. The Growing Beyond Earth program supports international space crop research.
Kim Johnson, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University
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Australia's new dawn: becoming a green superpower with a big role in cutting global emissions
Australia has a massive opportunity to reduce global emissions by as much as 9%, all while renewing its heavy industries and economy. But to seize the opportunity, government needs to move fast.
Rod Sims, Professor in the practice of public policy and antitrust, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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We must assess 'cumulative impacts' to protect nature from death by a thousand cuts
Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.
Rebecca Louise Nelson, Associate Professor in Law, The University of Melbourne
Martine Maron, Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Climate adaptation projects sometimes exacerbate the problems they try to solve – a new tool hopes to correct that
Preliminary findings show that managed retreat, structural flood protection and climate-resilient development projects are most at risk of maladaptation.
Ritodhi Chakraborty, Lecturer of Human Geography, University of Canterbury
Claire Burgess, Research Assistant, University of Canterbury
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What to wear for a climate crisis
Australia has the world’s biggest carbon footprint from fashion. This is one area where changing our personal clothing choices can make a big difference, just as it did in the second world war.
Rachael Wallis, Research Assistant, Youth Community Futures, University of Southern Queensland
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Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here's how
As the cost-of-living crisis bites into our household budgets, growing or foraging food can save you money.
Kate Neale, Researcher, Southern Cross University
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All mines close. How can mining towns like Mount Isa best manage the ups and downs?
For towns built on mining, mine closures have huge impacts. Because mines inevitably close, communities should be involved from the start in planning for that time.
Kimberley Crofts, Doctoral Student in Sustainable Transitions, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Liam Phelan, Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Beyond Juukan Gorge: how First Nations people are taking charge of clean energy projects on their land
Australia’s road to net zero must pass through Indigenous-held land, which is likely to host many clean energy projects. First Nations people want partnerships that help them protect their Country.
Lily O'Neill, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
Brad Riley, Research Fellow, Australian National University
Ganur Maynard, Indigenous Knowledge Holder, Indigenous Knowledge
Janet Hunt, Honorary Associate Professor, CAEPR, Australian National University
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National road-user charges are needed – and most people are open to it, our research shows
Support for road-user charging strengthens when people are assured that revenue goes into reducing traffic congestion, maintaining transport infrastructure, improving public transport.
Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
Hadi Ghaderi, Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Swinburne University of Technology
Tariq Munir, PhD Candidate, Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure and Digital Construction, Swinburne University of Technology
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Pushing water uphill: Snowy 2.0 was a bad idea from the start. Let's not make the same mistake again
Storing energy in large pumped hydro schemes sounds simple. But engineering and terrain challenges have put Snowy 2.0 well off track – while grid-scale batteries get better and better
Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here's what climate change is doing to it
For some countries, climate change has already pushed most of their territory into a different climate zone. Our research shows what’s already happened – and what’s yet to come.
Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
Hylke Beck, Assistant Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Pablo Rozas Larraondo, Research fellow, Australian National University
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From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world
Understanding how animals think, learn and interact with one another can inform the science of ecology, as predator and prey shape their world.
Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
Erick Lundgren, Postdoctoral fellow, Aarhus University, University of Technology Sydney
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How to beat 'rollout rage': the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia
If Australia is to meet its net zero targets it must move fast and build massive industrial infrastructure. But those projects are provoking fierce hostility. Is there a way through the green dilemma?
Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Cleaning up Australia's 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs
Newly announced closures of Glencore’s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University’s Resources Trinity Group found more than…
Mohan Yellishetty, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University
Peter Marcus Bach, Senior Research Scientist, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, and Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University
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The climate impact of plastic pollution is negligible – the production of new plastics is the real problem
Stringent measures are needed to prevent plastic pollution. But concerns about carbon leaching from plastic waste would be better aimed at emissions from producing more plastic in the first place.
Karin Kvale, Senior Scientist, Carbon Cycle Modeller, GNS Science
Andrew Weaver, Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Natalia Gurgacz, Graduate Student, University of Victoria
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The dams are full for now – but Sydney will need new water supplies as rainfall becomes less reliable
To build drought resilence, Sydney must invest in rainfall-independent water supplies.
Stuart Khan, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney
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It's good the High Court overturned Victoria's questionable EV tax. But there's a sting in the tail
Taxing electric vehicles was always a bad idea. But the High Court’s ruling against Victoria’s law could make state-based road user charges impossible.
John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Young crown-of-thorns starfish can survive heatwaves. That's yet more bad news for the Great Barrier Reef
Nature’s ultimate coral predator could benefit from climate change by surviving heatwaves and lie in wait for the right moment to feast on the reef.
Matt Clements, PhD Student, University of Sydney
Maria Byrne, Professor of Developmental & Marine Biology, University of Sydney
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The original and still the best: why it's time to renew Australia's renewable energy policy
Of all Australia’s climate policies, the Renewable Energy Target has been the most effective. Why have Australian governments moved away from it, and how can they revive it?
Tim Nelson, Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
Joel Gilmore, Associate Professor, Griffith University
Tahlia Nolan, Griffith University
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Slow solutions to fast-moving ecological crises won’t work – changing basic human behaviours must come first
Ecological overshoot is driven by human consumption and a belief in endless economic growth. Could the marketing and media industries that feed those habits also help change them?
Mike Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Phoebe Barnard, Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate & Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town; Founding CEO, Stable Planet Alliance, University of Washington
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