CSIRO is undertaking research to better address public perceptions and understandings of climate change. Four online surveys were undertaken at approximately yearly intervals from 2010 until 2013. The 2013 survey found that previous experience with extreme climate and weather events was positively …
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In research published in the journal Nature, CSIRO and an international team of scientists have revealed global maps showing how fast and in which direction local climates are shifting. This new study points to a simpler way of looking at …
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Restore America’s Estuaries has released the findings of a study that confirms the climate mitigation benefits of restoring tidal wetland habitat. The study, the first of its kind, provides a much needed approach for assessing carbon fluxes for historic drained …
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A newly published global analysis explores the impacts of urbanisation on birds (54 cities) and plants (110 cities). The density of species has declined substantially compared with non-urban estimates, but cities still retain endemic native species providing opportunities for regional and global …
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Stress has become a constant for many city residents. The research brief Feeling Stressed? Take a Time Out in Nature summarises the evidence proving the benefits of urban green spaces in buffering stress.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) researchers and other authors in the new book Biodiversity and Environmental Change have maintained monitoring sites, often for one or more decades, in an array of different ecosystems across the Australian continent. This book highlights …
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The ecosystem services concept emphasises the multiple benefits of ecosystems to humans, and its use can facilitate collaboration. Although the concept has gained considerable interest, it is increasingly contested and encounters objections. The authors of Ecosystem services as a contested …
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Food security and land required for food production largely depend on rate of yield gain of major cereal crops. The new analysis Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends finds evidence of yield plateaus or …
Green space in towns and cities could lead to significant and sustained improvements in mental health, finds a new study published in the journal of Environmental Science & Technology. Analysing data that followed people over a five year period, the …
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Research at the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Environmental Decisions Hub has found that heat waves, droughts and floods expected under climate change will alter environmental conditions so much that many eucalypts will no longer survive in their native ranges. …
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