More countries accepting the environment must take centre stage
New research shows that an increasing number of countries are publishing ecosystem accounts, helping to embed nature in economic and financial decisions.
Category: Water & Climate
Understanding flow is the key to river health
In a dry country such as Australia, accurate understanding of streamflow generation processes in intermittent rivers is crucial to understand the health of our troubled river system, according to Flinders University Hydrology researcher Dr Margaret Shanafield.
Sugar ants’ preference for pee could curb GHG
A penchant for pee could see a common ant play a role in reducing greenhouse gases.
Rethinking climate modelling to prepare for even hotter temperatures
Improper adoption of climate impact modelling could leave us ill prepared for even higher temperatures and more frequent heatwaves, according to new research.
Irrigation helps beat the heat
Large-scale irrigation can help alleviate and even reverse hot extremes driven by human activity and other drivers of global warming, a new international study has found.
Rule-breaking plants as climate change survivors
Plants breaking some of the ecological rules might have a higher chance of surviving climate change, according to researchers from the University of Queensland and Trinity College Dublin.
Rethinking climate modelling to prepare for even hotter temperatures
Researchers compared two major climate modelling methods, transient climate where the global temperatures are consistently rising over the next 80 years and equilibrium climate where the temperatures rise and reach a steady equilibrium over the course of centuries.
Agriculture run-off greenhouse gas emissions from rivers and streams have increased
Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from rivers and streams have increased since the 1900s, largely thanks to the use of nitrogen fertilisers in agriculture, according to Australian and international research.
Benefits and risks for marine life from CO2 removal approaches
A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) study has identified potential benefits and risks for marine ecosystems from two of the key approaches for carbon removal proposed to cut atmospheric carbon levels and slow climate change.
Soil study shows Australia at its most stripped back
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) and Geoscience Australia could provide a much clearer picture of the Australian landscape, and how to better manage it under a changing climate.
Is vital freshwater hidden beneath the sea?
Solutions to escalating global water supply issues are demanding innovative scientific investigation, such as Flinders University’s Professor Adrian Werner making important advances in assessing freshwater reservoirs that exist beneath the ocean.
Mapping climate change using historical mangrove records
A Griffith University wetland ecologist has played a key role in new research that looked to the past to identify historical changes in mangrove and salt marsh dominance and distribution over the past 250 years.