Opinion
Read the latest opinion articles inspired by science.
The modern-day space race has led to thousands of satellites being scattered through Earth’s outer orbits. If left unchallenged, these companies risk overpopulating an already crowded space environment – potentially pushing dark skies to extinction.
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7 Apr 2020
While we fixate on coronavirus, Earth is hurtling towards a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction
Earth is heading for another mass extinction – and human activity is to blame.
6 Apr 2020
If you’re worried about bushfires but want to keep your leafy garden, follow these tips
ANU fire and vegetation experts provide tips on maintaining a garden, while keeping your home safer from bushfires.
3 Apr 2020
We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too
Alongside traditional kinds of expertise, “real time” expertise and leadership at the local scale will be invaluable in coming weeks and months.
24 Mar 2020
Why our unis are essential to beating COVID-19
Society is relying on its universities and medical research institutes to develop vaccines, tests and public health measures to combat COVID-19.
10 Mar 2020
Sure, save furry animals after the bushfires – but our river creatures are suffering too
After the bushfires, donations flooded in for our iconic mammals. But there’s a risk the government and public responses will not see the fish for the koalas.
3 Mar 2020
Logging is due to start in fire-ravaged forests this week. It's the last thing our wildlife needs
New South Wales’ Forestry Corporation will this week start “selective timber harvesting” from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state’s south coast.
26 Feb 2020
Labor’s climate policy is too little, too late. We must run faster to win the race
Will Steffen says that adopting a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 is a big step in the right direction, but the policy is too little, too late.
26 Feb 2020
We won’t have fusion generators in five years. But the holy grail of clean energy may still be on its way
How far away we are from harnessing the energy that powers the sun and stars?
5 Feb 2020
Universities are key to meeting our climate change challenge
Universities are key to meeting our climate change challenge
28 Jan 2020
Fire almost wiped out rare species in the Australian Alps. Feral horses are finishing the job
Populations of wildlife that the bushfires haven't already wiped out are threatened by thousands of feral horses trampling the land.
