Pictured; CDU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Rogers, AIMS researcher Dr Vinay Udyawer, CDU PhD candidate Ruth Patterson, CDU Senior Research Fellow and project lead Dr Rachel Groom and Member for Solomon Luke Gosling. Charles Darwin University A new project, between Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and indigenous ranger groups, will […]
McLachlan Carbon Project at Rocking Chair Farm at Marshdale near Dungog, NSW, has generated 2,110 ACCUs under the Emmissions Reduction Fund (ERF) in two years on 73.6 hectares with 1114mm rainfall. It is also the second project to go through AgriProve’s Carbon Intensity Assessment. This shows landholders John Monaghan and business partner Alan Smith successfully […]
Restoration Decade Alliance Over 800 ecosystem restoration experts from across the globe are gathering in Darwin for the 10th Society on Ecological Restoration (https://ser2023.org/) from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th of September, the largest conference of its kind ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost 34 mammals to […]
The alliance will promote sustainable and high-performance practices within the construction industry, with the goal of working towards a carbon-neutral future. Builders, designers, and industry professionals are invited to the launch of the Sustainable Builders Alliance (SBA), marking a critical step towards the construction industry’s goal of a carbon-neutral future. The alliance, a collective of […]
Robust water and wastewater defences are required as Australia dries out under the effects of El Nino and Climate Change. By Michael Bambridge*, Managing Director, CST Wastewater Solutions As Australia’s weather patterns turn drier with the arrival of the El Nino forecast by the Weather Bureau to arrive by the end of this year, our water […]
The Quilted Oyster Doona. OzFish Unlimited continues to innovate the shellfish revolution with the upcoming trial of Quilted Oyster Doonas (QODs) set to bring an added layer of versatility to restoration projects. Robbie Porter, OzFish’s Senior Special Projects Officer – Shellfish Revolution, who invented the QOD, said: “No one has ever done something like this before and we think it […]
Research from Monash University Business School has tested whether monetary or non-monetary incentives can encourage households to shift their daily electricity use to better align with solar energy output. Rooftop solar has created opportunities for households to consider shifting their electricity consumption to times of the day that are more cost effective. During the daytime […]
Critically Endangered Plains-wanderer Funds will be used to deploy solar powered recorders for 24/7 monitoring Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) has secured $145,045 in state government funding to implement a search and monitoring program for threatened species on the North Australian Pastoral Company’s (NAPCo) Coorabulka Station in western Queensland. Funds from the Queensland Government’s Threatened Species […]
Peter Philipp, Neo4j ANZ General Manager Peter Philipp, General Manager ANZ, Neo4j The race is on for companies and countries to achieve net zero by 2050. In Australia, the government and private sector are redoubling their efforts to develop and adopt low-carbon solutions and policies as they pursue green growth opportunities to address environmental and social […]
AUSTRALIANS are urged to prepare for hot, dry and potentially dangerous fire conditions, as the Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared an El Niño event underway. The Bureau of Meteorology’s update comes as fires burn across the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. In Sydney, today marks the hottest three consecutive days ever recorded during […]
