A new online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas presenting spatial information and species distribution patterns has been launched. The Atlas is a resource for better, evidenced-based decision making in the area of water policy, science and management.
The South East Queensland Natural Resource Management Plan 2009-2031 is being updated to better prepare the community and the economy for future pressures such as extreme weather events and natural disasters, including flash flooding, storms and bushfires. You are invited to …
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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 …
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report Assessing Global Land Use: Balancing Consumption with Sustainable Supply explores how the management of land-based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales. Specifically, it …
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We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. The book Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth – an economy where the …
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The University of Queensland fee-free online TROPIC101x course will introduce you to the incredible plants and animals that create tropical coastal ecosystems, and you will go on to explore the challenges these ecosystems are facing such as overfishing, coastal pollution, …
Biophilia is a term popularized by Harvard University myrmecologist and conservationist E.O. Wilson to describe the extent to which humans are hard-wired to need connection with nature and other forms of life. We need nature in our lives more than …
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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The aim of the Healthy and Strong Children policy initiative is for South Australia’s children to spend more time playing outdoors and learning how to grow and prepare fresh fruit and vegetables to build healthy habits for life. The initiative …
South Australian initiative aims to reconnect children with nature and healthy food Read more »
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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