Read the latest opinion articles inspired by science.

Atlas moth on leaves

Saving species starts at home: how you can help Australia’s 1,000 threatened invertebrates

Sadly, almost 1,000 Australian invertebrates are threatened with extinction and need protecting.

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Kambri university precinct at night with lights.
Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Evidence uncovered by the Royal Commission has shown systemic failures in the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

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Building on campus with trees.
Mon, 21 Jan 2019

The situation is a little more complicated than it may appear.

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University campus showing building, trees and sculpture of giant silver ball.
Fri, 21 Dec 2018

Glossy Black-Cockatoos used to be common on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island until possums started eating their eggs and chicks.

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Aerial view of ANU campus, showing buildings, ovals and Black Mountain.
Fri, 21 Dec 2018

Ensuring the economic health of nations is one of the biggest tasks expected of governments. The elephant in the room has long been the health of the environmen

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Courtyard with buildings.
Fri, 26 Oct 2018

My research involves trying to find the secret to propagating them – something we still don’t fully understand.

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Building facade.
Wed, 24 Oct 2018

Helping farmers improve the rivers, dams, native vegetation and trees on their land increases productivity and the resilience of the land to drought

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Building with garden in foreground.
Mon, 17 Sep 2018

The Australian renewable energy industry will install more than 10 gigawatts of new solar and wind power during 2018 and 2019.

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University building.
Wed, 22 Aug 2018

It’s been a year since ripples from a colliding pair of dead stars tickled the gravitational wave detectors of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo facilities.

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Kambri university precinct at night with lights.
Wed, 22 Aug 2018

The National Energy Guarantee appears to promise the certainty that experts have desperately sought for. But beware: there is a renewable energy train coming.

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