Unique opportunity to help deliver frost outcomes
Grower groups, advisers, researchers and people involved in agribusiness are encouraged to put up their hands to assist in the delivery of frost research outcomes to Australian grain growers.
Tag: environment
For food security, hoverflies could be the bees’ knees
Pollinator declines have the potential to seriously affect food security and have driven an increased interested in non-bee pollinators, of which hoverflies are the most prominent group, visiting 72% of global food crops worth US$300 billion per year and over 70% of wildflowers.
Current greenhouse gases could cause more frequent and longer Dust Bowl heatwaves
The 1930s Dust Bowl drought across North America’s Great Plains caused widespread crop failures and large dust storms, but had they been dealing with today’s level of greenhouse gas emissions back then, Australian scientists say things could have been even worse.
Pilot project taps into new digital water trading opportunities for FNQ irrigators
The latest Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) collaboration sees blockchain and digital technology experts Civic Ledger working with researchers and industry representatives to deliver the “Improving water markets and trading through new digital technologies” pilot research project over the next six months.
Rising temperatures likely to increase damage caused by plant pathogens
New research in Nature Climate Change provides evidence that rising temperatures are likely to increase crop losses as warmer soils favour the growth of pathogenic soil fungi species.
Latest climate projections suggest dry days lie ahead for Australia
Compared to a world before man-made climate change, the latest state‐of‐the‐art climate model projections suggest much of our planet will dry out significantly, and extreme droughts will increase, by the end of the 21st century, according to US scientists.
Funding available to help restock our rivers
The NSW Government is calling on anglers, community groups, councils and others to apply for funding under the Dollar for Dollar Native Fish Stocking program, with applications now open.
Sink or Swim: mismatch between land and seafloor debris revealed in global study
The Journal of Environmental Pollution have published a study by scientists at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency; Project AWARE, a global non-profit connecting community action and policy; and Ocean Conservancy, a US-based advocacy non-profit, that evaluated the relationship between land-based debris and what is found…
Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging
Logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent, catastrophic Australian bushfires, according to new research.
Historic lake could be key to better management of Murray Darling Basin
A team of scientists – from the University of Newcastle and the University of Sydney – has published important findings revealing that between 5000 and 8000 years ago when sea-levels were approximately two metres higher than today, the Lower Murray River turned into a large,…
Conservation goals may be stymied by a lack of land for biodiversity offsetting
Developers may struggle to find enough land to offset the biodiversity impacts of future development, according to a University of Queensland study.
Tree trunks take a licking as koalas source water
Koalas are one of the world’s most charismatic animals. But there is a lot we still don’t know about them. For example, how do the marsupials access water in the treetops? Do they only absorb moisture from the gum leaves they eat? Or do they…