More than half of Australia’s homes were built before fire standards came in. Here are 5 ways to retrofit them
1. Upgrade external vents. Traditional external vents are designed to ventilate rooms and roofs. But they also permit embers ...
Yes, Australia needs new homes—but they must be built to withstand disasters in a warmer world
Australia's housing crisis has created a push for fast-tracked construction. Federal, state and territory governments have ...
Australian Geographic3d
Scientists are watching wombat burrows from space
The Nullarbor is riddled with wombat burrows. New research shows a way to detect these from space using high-resolution ...
Farmers ‘locked out’ of their own land by the NSW government
Up to 90 per cent of the land on their Tallimbalong property is now rendered unusable after the NSW government rolled out a ...
AI Maps Urban Green, Revealing Environmental Gaps
A research team led by Rumi Chunara - an NYU associate professor with appointments in both the Tandon School of Engineering and the School of Global ...
More dry lightning in Tasmania is sparking bushfires – challenging fire fighters and land managers
What can we learn from the bushfires in Tasmania? Beware of climate change, especially the unpredictable nature of blazes ...
Nearly 95,000 hectares of wilderness in Tasmania's west lost to bushfires
The bushfires on Tasmania's west coast have now burned nearly 95,000 hectares in hard-to-access terrain. Here's how that ...
NSW appoints first agriculture commissioner for ‘under the pump’ industry
The NSW government has appointed the state’s first statutory agriculture commissioner in a win for the industry.
Opinion
Vikki Campion: Why old-school independents have no hope against the ‘Hollywood Teals’
Kids of old-school independents remember their weekends door-knocking, which in the country meant their job was opening gates at the top of long, dusty driveways and waiting, sometimes hours, for dad ...