ECOS - e-news February 2019
New research reveals how climate change could influence future krill abundance and whale populations in the Southern Hemisphere.
Bioregional Assessments was a project that delivered the world’s first regional‑scale assessment of the water impacts of coal resource development - an enormous human challenge which tested some of the world's most sophisticated supercomputers.
The Australian public has united with scientists to help them identify what truly makes the Great Barrier Reef ‘beautiful’.
In the decade since the devastating Black Saturday fires in Victoria, CSIRO researchers have continued to study the behaviour of bushfires, how to build better homes and better protect firefighters. They acknowledge the invaluable contributions of those communities and volunteer fire brigades with whom they have worked to collect the critical data and scientific evidence to improve our understanding of bushfires and, ultimately, save lives in the future.
To mitigate climate change we might have to re-examine the rules that define carbon credit-worthy sequestration actions.