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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Courtyard with buildings.
Tue, 07 Apr 2020

Earth is heading for another mass extinction – and human activity is to blame.

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Building with garden in foreground.
Mon, 06 Apr 2020

ANU fire and vegetation experts provide tips on maintaining a garden, while keeping your home safer from bushfires.

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We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too
Fri, 03 Apr 2020

Alongside traditional kinds of expertise, “real time” expertise and leadership at the local scale will be invaluable in coming weeks and months.

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Scientist in the lab.
Tue, 24 Mar 2020

Society is relying on its universities and medical research institutes to develop vaccines, tests and public health measures to combat COVID-19.

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University building.
Tue, 10 Mar 2020

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.

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Kambri university precinct at night with lights.
Tue, 03 Mar 2020

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.

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Wed, 26 Feb 2020

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.

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Large multi storied building on university campus.
Wed, 26 Feb 2020
Wed, 05 Feb 2020

Universities are key to meeting our climate change challenge

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