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Why ‘best before’ food labelling is not best for the planet or your budget

UK supermarkets have removed “best before” dates on thousands of fresh food products in an effort to reduce food waste. Apples, bananas, potatoes, cucumbers and broccoli are among the most wasted foods. This could reduce waste by an estimated 50,000 tonnes a year!

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What is happening in Pakistan and how we can help?

We were asked on instagram how we can all contribute to aid relief in Pakistan as 1/3 of the country was underwater due to devastating flooding events.

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Good news: highway underpasses for wildlife actually work

To find out whether animal underpasses work, we used wildlife cameras to monitor 12 underpasses for more than two years in north-east New South Wales.

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Women are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for Australia

Women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and yet they are also leading the way in climate policy and politics. Despite the major parties being virtually silent on the issues of gender equity and climate change throughout the 2022 election both issues proved to be turning points ...

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Local efforts have cut plastic waste on Australia’s beaches by almost 30% in 6 years

The waste management efforts of local government councils and community clean up programs dramatically help to reduce plastic waste along the Australian coastline.

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Shifting seasons: using Indigenous knowledge and western science to help address climate change impacts

Traditional Owners in Australia are the creators of millennia worth of traditional ecological knowledge, this can be used as climate change disrupts the non-indigenous weather calendar.

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Meet the world’s largest plant: a single seagrass clone stretching 180 km in Western Australia’s Shark Bay

To find out how many different individual plants are growing in a seagrass meadow, you have to test their DNA. We did this for meadows of ribbon weed seagrass called Posidonia australis in the shallow sun-drenched waters of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, in Western Australia and the result ...

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I am a climate scientist – and this is my plea to our newly elected politicians

I am a climate scientist who has spent the last two decades studying how our climate is changing and sharing our increasingly urgent and frightening findings with the world. This is my plea to our newly elected politicians.

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Why vote independent?

The Australian Federal election campaign is in full swing, ahead of us voting at the polls on 21st May. Amongst all of the debates, political ads, posters and pamphlets, you may have noticed that this year there are A LOT of Independent candidates - i.e. candidates that are not associated ...

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