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Australian agriculture must adapt to climate change  7/8/2010
Australian agriculture must adapt to climate change
In Australia's first ever climate change adaption conference, scientists and decision makers delivered a clear message: agriculture and farming businesses must cope with the changing ...
Workplaces still lack women  7/6/2010
Workplaces still lack women
Only 38 per cent of Generation X, tertiary qualified women participating in a long-running University of Melbourne study or work full-time, compared to 90 per cent of Generation X, ...
Businesses must make their own carbon action plans  7/1/2010
Businesses must make their own carbon action plans
Feature of the week: Although the government has delayed its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least 2013, it is still in the interest of businesses in all sectors to start ...
New prawn breed developed  6/29/2010
New prawn breed developed
After ten years of painstaking research into the popular Black Tiger prawn, CSIRO's Food Futures Flagship and Australian prawn farmers have developed a new prawn that is producing ...
AUS's 1st climate change adaptation conference  6/28/2010
AUS's 1st climate change adaptation conference
The first international conference held in Australia to discuss the science and options for adapting to climate change begins on the Gold Coast on Tuesday 29 June.
Waste management for Australian businesses  6/17/2010
Waste management for Australian businesses
Feature of the week: Every year Australian businesses purchase millions of computers, printers and televisions, and throw out their old ones.
Foam breaker cleans waterways  6/17/2010
Foam breaker cleans waterways
Australian scientists have developed a groundbreaking treatment to clean up the highly toxic and persistent foam chemicals used worldwide to fight thousands of fires.
Could compost replace synthetic fertilisers?  6/16/2010
Could compost replace synthetic fertilisers?
Feature of the week: Farmers are being urged to change their use of chemically produced fertilisers for food production, and utilise an alternative plant food such as compost, to ...
Fertiliser helps weed control  6/15/2010
Fertiliser helps weed control
Feeding weeds fertiliser sounds like exactly the wrong thing, if you want to get rid of them, but Jennifer Firn of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems has been doing just that - to control ...
Simple answer for clean water  6/11/2010
Simple answer for clean water
The production of clean energy and the treatment of waste water are set to become easier thanks to ANU researchers.
Green shopping is a mutual responsibility: survey  6/10/2010
Green shopping is a mutual responsibility: survey
Australian shoppers, food manufacturers and retailers have a mutual responsibility towards buying, producing and stocking "green" products after a new survey found only 13 per cent ...
Dry run for farmers  6/7/2010
Dry run for farmers
Feature of the week: Suffering from low prices, and unpredictable weather patters, are only some of issues farmers have to deal with each and every day.
Sauvignon Blanc likes the cold  6/4/2010
Sauvignon Blanc likes the cold
Auckland scientists studying the unique characteristics of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc have shown that cold storage can triple the shelf-life of the wine by reducing the loss of ...
Helping canola bloom on time  6/1/2010
Helping canola bloom on time
Industry & Investment NSW (I&I) researchers are helping investigate the genes that control flowering in canola.
Emotional intelligence: Enhancing success in the workplace  5/27/2010
Emotional intelligence: Enhancing success in the workplace
Where there is emotional intelligence in the workplace, there are likely to be happy, and productive employees who work as a team.
Solar industry left high and dry  5/27/2010
Solar industry left high and dry
Feature of the week: With the highest average solar radiation per square meter of any continent in the world, Australia should be one of the hubs for the development of solar power. ...
Fencing project helps Lower Lakes recovery  5/27/2010
Fencing project helps Lower Lakes recovery
A fencing project to keep livestock away from exposed lakebeds in South Australia's Lower Lakes region is helping to protect important vegetation and bioremediation works, Federal ...
Budget drought hits the bush  5/27/2010
Budget drought hits the bush
Feature of the week: It's going to be a dry year in terms of Federal funding for the agricultural sector in 2010/2011, with farmers and agricultural groups around Australia bluntly ...
NZ: Carp migration helps trapping  5/26/2010
NZ: Carp migration helps trapping
The koi carp which infest the region's waterways may be susceptible to trapping at key points in their life cycle, a new study has shown.
New moorings to save seagrass  5/24/2010
New moorings to save seagrass
An aerial view of a typical boat-mooring area in Moreton Bay reveals dozens of bare haloes, patches of sand surrounded by seagrass.
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