• ECOS - Towards a Sustainable Future
Ecos Issue 152 - Table of Contents

 

Spotlight on CSIRO

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Climate variability, climate change and drought in eastern Australia

 

From this Issue

Coming clean on phantom RECs

Renewable energy developers and environmental NGOs are becoming increasingly concerned about design flaws in the expanded national Renewable Energy Target (RET), which was passed into law by Parliament in August 2009.

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Managing Tiwi fires for greenhouse gas abatement

The economic potential of carbon is the focus of a new collaborative fire project on the Tiwi Islands, 80 km north of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

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News

´Biology´s bad boy´ takes on renewable energy challenge

A scientist who played a key role in sequencing the human genome, and who has since turned his attention to developing a new generation of biofuels, will be presenting a free public talk in Melbourne on Wednesday 17 March.

Australian agriculture must adapt to climate change

Australian agriculture needs to adapt now to climate change according to a CSIRO book launched today entitled: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Preparing Australian Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry for the Future.

From the Archive

Sea birds in the trees

The Abbott's booby is the rarest and most restricted in distribution of the species belonging to the sea-bird family Sulidae (gannets and boobies). It is unique to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Land clearing for rock phosphate mining has changed wind patterns, affecting the bird's breeding success, so a revegetation program is one of the measures being considered to improve the habitat in order to increase the chances of the bird's survival.

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Unearthing geckos and truffles

Alcoa World Alumina Australia (Alcoa) has an innovative environmental rehabilitation program, which has succeeded in restoring the botanical richness of its bauxite mine sites in Western Australia. Research on fungi from rehabilitated sites has led to the discovery of a new truffle, Amarrendia oleosa.

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