Here comes the Sun
Solar power research is in a golden age with new materials, new technologies and an industry grow...
It can feel challenging in the world right now to hold onto our optimism for the future, as we do our best to face do...
Sustainability
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The conservation hotspots that could help protect the planet
How to get the most environmental benefit from the least land.
Humanity could protect 70% of all terrestrial plants and animals by strategically conserving just 30% of the world’s ...
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The uncomfortable balance between biodiversity and carbon capture
We need to solve both critical problems, but win-win solutions are few and far between.
Two of the most pressing environmental problems of the 21st Century – climate change and biodiversity loss – are even...
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More “meat-free Mondays” needed to sustain future populations
UNSW professor warns current consumption cannot continue if we want to reduce world hunger and sa...
The global food system could be pushed to breaking point within 20 years unless we drastically alter our consumption,...
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How are we doing? Corporate Australia's zero-emissions report card
An analysis of corporate Australia and their progress to net zero emissions shows some surprisin...
The report cards are in. Corporate Australia has been marked on how it’s progressing towards net zero emissions, and ...
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Conversation
‘Although we didn’t produce these problems, we suffer them’
Three ways you can help in NAIDOC’s call to Heal Country.
By Bhiamie Williamson, Australian National University NAIDOC week has just begun and, after several tumultuous yea...
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Robot can sort soft plastics for recycling
A new system could identify and sort soft plastics.
Engineers at the University of Sydney are developing a robot that can sort soft plastics out of waste, simplifying re...
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Path to zero emissions: the future of transport
Former chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel describes what transportation will look like in a zero-emis...
To describe how I think transport will look in the future I need to set the scene. My Quarterly Essay, "Getting to Ze...
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World Environment Day wrap: ecosystem restoration
Five stories to read on preserving and rejuvenating our ecosystems.
The theme of World Environment Day this year is “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.” Ecosystem loss is catastrophic for th...
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Video
Rewilding: How to build a forest
We interview Brett Krause about his reforestation projects on Queensland’s Cassowary Coast.
Ahead of World Environment Day on Saturday, Cosmos spoke to Brett Krause – a self-described “forest builder” – about ...
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Conversation
The guitar industry's hidden environmental problem — and the people trying to fix it
Researchers spent six years on the road tracing guitar-making materials across five continents.
By Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong and Andrew Warren, University of Wollongong Musicians are often concerne...
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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...