Cosmos Briefing: Water Policy in Australia
How do we protect our most precious resource?
Water is the most vital resource on Earth and underpins all areas of survival. Over the next 10 years, we will need m...
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Bruce Pascoe’s long lesson for better land use
The acclaimed author is learning to grow native grains and tubers the way First Australians did.
Writer Bruce Pascoe is an unlikely but committed late-life convert to agricultural science, even though his reasons t...
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Earthquake early warning? There’s an app for that…
Forget going high-tech to give citizens warning of an earthquake: mobile phones and a decent inte...
An app that converts smartphones into makeshift seismometers and could save lives by providing early warning of earth...
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Successful Paris Agreement could halve ice loss by 2100
Two new papers assess the impact of melting land ice on sea level rise.
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C could halve the amount of Antarctic land ice lost by the end of the century, but mai...
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Cleaning up military waste with GM grass
Genetically modified grass removes toxic military waste, RDX.
A genetically modified common grass can remove toxic military waste from soil, according to a paper published in Natu...
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Glaciers are shrinking faster every year
Scientists study more than 200,000 glaciers to estimate global ice loss – with distressing results.
A massive study of nearly every glacier on Earth has confirmed that they are losing more and more ice every year. ...
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Slow the flow: Rehabilitating Australian rivers
A gentle meander can keep water in Australian rivers.
A lot of water sounds like a good thing, but for Australian rivers, it really depends on where it is and how fast it ...
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72% of humanity in an ‘ecological poverty trap’
Eradicating poverty impossible without focusing on biological resource scarcity, researchers say.
Three out of four people live in countries that are doubly cursed with both a below-average income and a natural reso...
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Explainer
Explainer: What is a rock?
The definition is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Everyone is familiar with rocks. It’s hard not to be. They’re everywhere – we walk on them, skip them across ponds, d...
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Rewilding isn’t just about the animals
It’s vital to consider the landscape, or “geodiversity”, scientists say.
As this year kicks off the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration” to try and repair some of the damage caused by humans, s...
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Australia lags on climate change action
US President Biden douses the fire of four years of national climate denialism.
Overnight, 40 of the world’s leaders met to address climate change in an online summit hosted by the US. Under new Pr...
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What’s the difference between climate and weather?
If we’re to make the changes that are needed, we need to find ways to get everyone – not only the...
One of the first things I get asked when I talk to school students is: “What’s the difference between weather and cli...