Is oil palm an environmental time bomb?

The boom in oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia may be a modern day gold rush for the region’s farmers, but is the expansion an economic saviour or environmental time bomb? That’s the question three leading resource management academics will debate today at The Australian National University.

Carbon rush could devastate wood industry

The Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme could have a devastating effect on Australia’s wood processing industry, as plantation owners rush to the carbon market and forego wood harvesting.

Water win recognises major savings

ANU has slashed its water use by 10 per cent on 2002 levels, and won the Water Conservation prize in the 2008 ACT Sustainable Cities Awards as a result.

Life bloomed as ancient oceans cooled

Microscopic tooth-like fossils have helped an international team led by scientists from The Australian National University to demonstrate for the first time a link between a cooling climate and increasing biodiversity in ancient oceans almost 500 million years ago.

Eureka! Carbon modellers secure top prize

ANU scientists are part of a team that have won the nation’s top environmental research prize for developing a system that monitors and predicts greenhouse emissions.

In the Reporter

Selling politics

Political marketing techniques can help explain why some parties succeed while others fail.

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• Last word: We must e-publish or perish
• In the eye of the dragonfly
• Six easy lessons in: Fair Trade

On Campus

• Around the world with the best of the best
• Institute builds on strong base of Korean studies
• National alliance to boost disease research
• Asia-Pacific expertise on display
• Staff Info 27 August 2008
• Update on Enterprise Agreement Negotiations
• Heads of Academic Organisational Units
• Election of Council members: The Faculties & the Institute of Advanced Studies
• Student Info 27 August 2008
• Get Up and Go