• ECOS - Towards a Sustainable Future
Ecos Issue 149 - Table of Contents

 

Spotlight on CSIRO

Permafrost melt poses major climate change threat

Future Fuels Forum

 

From this Issue

Towards a systems-based approach to planning infrastructure

Integrating the need for major infrastructure development with an ongoing commitment to communities and the environment is the driving force behind a new approach for sustainable development in major projects in Australia.

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Sustainable commitments insulate financial leaders

Banks and super funds have been battered by the gale of the global financial crisis but not everyone is suffering.

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News

Carbon footprints to appear on Aussie shop shelves

Planet Ark and the Carbon Trust have announced the launch of a Carbon Reduction Label scheme in Australia.

El Nino on the cards for Australia this year

An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in a revised forecast.

From the Archive

The dingo's role revitalised

The dingo has had a bad wrap in Australia, but new research on its benefits for native ecosystems may give the dingo something to howl about.

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Learning little things about extinction

Since the mid 1980s, ecologists have been studying the effects of habitat fragmentation on 800 insect species in areas of remnant vegetation at Wog Wog Mountain, NSW.

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