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Flooded streetscape including a house and street signs

Rising risks of climate disasters mean some communities will need to move – we need a national conversation about relocation now

While the prospect of relocation can be unsettling and traumatic for residents, it offers new opportunities and long-term benefits. But we must act now.

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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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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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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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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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Tue, 14 Aug 2018

Many of us stare in the face of such disaster, and feel helpless. Learning what actually happens during an earthquake could help you feel better prepared.

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Campus at dusk, showing buildings, trees and a silver ball sculpture.
Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Several large earthquakes have struck the Indonesian island of Lombok in the past week, with the largest quake killing at least 98 people

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Aerial view of ANU campus, showing buildings, ovals and Black Mountain.
Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Outside my office window, two skilled workers complete a hard and dirty job. They’re cutting the felled trunk of a tree into small enough pieces to be thrown in

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