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Australians are installing home batteries at record rates. They could be used not just to cut bills but as a backup after a natural disaster.
Disasters like earthquakes and flood destroy homes and generate vast amounts of waste. Is there a better, greener way to rebuild affected communities?
Ever wondered if it’s wise to pour that old paint water down the sink? It can’t do any harm right?! The problem is not what you do, but what everyone contributes.
When worried communities talk to authorities about forever chemicals, officials often seek to explain and clarify. But this isn’t what people actually want.
If Australia hits 82% renewables by the end of the decade, wholesale power should be a third cheaper.
For too long, Indigenous perspectives have not been heard in groundwater science. We must work together to protect Australia’s precious groundwater.
The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have changed, and the impact that’s having on people and wildlife.
In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return to cultural burning help?
Christmas holidays are peak time for bushfires. Here’s how you can understand the predicted fire conditions, develop a fire plan and have a safe break.
The government’s resource management reforms aim to make development easier. But will the new regime benefit everyone equally?
Australians use social media to plan outdoor adventures. But travel influencers take risks in remote locations. Are they putting followers in danger?
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?
Hidden in city car parks or warehouses, smart greenhouses promise to bring farming back to the city. But can these technology boost resilience?
This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.
Dozens of fires burning across New South Wales and Tasmania over the weekend claimed dozens of houses and the life of a firefighter. This is why they were so bad.
South Australians are heartbroken about the state’s unprecedented algal bloom. But eating oysters, donating shells and restoring lost reefs will boost ocean health.
An innovative study mapped preterm births, low birth weights and infant mortality to municipal water wells downstream from PFAS-contaminated sites. The results show the high cost of PFAS harm.
What do Australia’s new nature laws mean for native forests? The reforms closed a loophole that stopped legal scrutiny of logging. But we need the full detail.
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW