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Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections.
The Kakadu region has gone through immense transformation throughout history. How can archaeological food scraps tell us about how the First Australians adapted?
One was a celebrity adventurer, the other was a skilled Indigenous artist who painted everything in sight. A new look at old photographs confirms their meeting.
We owe it to Aboriginal people living near uranium mines to learn more about what’s making them sick.
How does rock art matter? New research finds it can act as a kind of intergenerational media –even when no longer visible to the eye.
Tiny nutshell fragments, found at a rock shelter in the Kakadu region, have helped researchers track past climate change in the region.
The Kakadu plum is one of the richest sources of vitamin C of any fruit, and the increasing demand has started creating supply problems.
The success of the rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine will be judged by criteria created by the mining company.
With unusual inflated winged fruits growing on “sickness country”, the tree flummoxed local botanists who had not seen anything like it before.
Of 19 World Heritage sites across the country, only two, Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta, recognise the values of “living” Aboriginal culture. None of Australia’s three sites inscribed purely for cultural values recognises Aboriginal people.
A score of new fish species discovered recently in northern Australia remind us how little we know about our country.
More land is burned in northern Australia during August and October than any other time of the year, and it’s not just a natural disaster.
Freshwater ecosystems such as rivers, lakes and wetlands are precious. They contain several-times more vertebrate species per unit area than land and ocean environments, and they are more degraded. Protected…
Kakadu National Park in Australia’s tropical north is one of the world’s premier conservation reserves. However, it is partly failing in one of its principal purposes. The past two to three decades have…
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Professor of Archaeology, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Rock Art Australia Ian Potter Kimberley Chair, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in Archaeology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Greg Leach adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University
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PhD candidate, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Post-doctoral researcher, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, College of Medicine and Public Health Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University
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Professor Emeritus, School of Social Science, University of Queensland and past inaugural Willem Willems Chair for Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Heritage Management, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Netherlands, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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PhD candidate, School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
