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Farm dam

Better dams offer major benefits to farmers and livestock

Managing the water quality of farm dams is critical to the health of livestock as well as boosting crop production, according to new research from the ANU Sustainable Farms group.

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Tuesday, 09 Apr 2019
  • News

A new ANU initiative is connecting futuristic technology to the real world of medicine through a systems thinking approach.

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Tuesday, 09 Apr 2019
  • News

A collection of chemical compounds is breaking down barriers to research.

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Tuesday, 09 Apr 2019
  • News

The four-year project will quantify the biodiversity, productivity and mental health gains farmers enjoy when they invest in dams.

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Building with garden in foreground.
Monday, 08 Apr 2019
  • Analysis and opinion

Environmental news is rarely good. But even by those low standards, 2018 was especially bad.

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Professor David Lindenmayer
Friday, 05 Apr 2019
  • News

The fellowship acknowledges Professor Lindenmayer's body of work to advance ecological knowledge and outcomes through research, education and outreach.

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A Mossy Red-eyed Frog sits on a leaf in Honduras
Friday, 29 Mar 2019
  • Research story

An international study led by ANU has found a fungal disease has caused dramatic population declines in more than 500 amphibian species.

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Thursday, 28 Mar 2019
  • News

Scientific and traditional knowledge of biodiversity are exchanged as RSB host members of the Njanjma Rangers.

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Two kangaroos grazing on Kangaroo Island
Thursday, 21 Mar 2019
  • Research story

Landholders need to turn professional in controlling kangaroo populations on properties and regard the iconic Australian animals as assets rather than pests.

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Wednesday, 20 Mar 2019
  • Research story

The near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, has thrown NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission a curve ball as its rough surface littered with boulders had not been anticipated.

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