What does fire management do to soils? We compared prescribed burning to cultural burning and looked at how soil properties changed after fire. Cultural burning was better.
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Satellite images and community perceptions combine to give a fuller picture of land use changes.
Crofters who have managed the land for centuries are being offered dubious rewards to risk their rights.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
A group of agricultural and soil scientists has serious concerns about the way credits are awarded for soil carbon sequestration in Australia.
Culling water buffalo is expensive. What if land managers could earn carbon credits for controlling the numbers of these methane-belching animals?
Mayotte is no exception to the adage “small islands, big problems”. A newly born volcano combined with poor land management and accelerating climate change has put its fabled lagoon at risk.
Environmental groups have criticised the government’s approach to nature – but what is this approach and why is it concerning?
Traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, can encompass science, medicine, ecology, religion and culture – and help protect the environment.
Rather than sitting in the back seat, Indigenous Australians must be up front in managing the recovery of Australia’s unique and precious environment.
Restoring farmland is one of the best ways to tackle climate and environmental issues over the long-term. But this doesn’t appear to be part of the Nationals deal.
Aboriginal people view so-called wilderness as sick, neglected land. This runs counter to the view of wilderness as pristine and healthy, which underpins non-Indigenous conservation efforts.
A new survey serves up a tall order for UK agricultural policy outside the EU.
The curator at UC Merced describes the evacuation and shows a selection of photographs from the 110-year history of the park.
Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. It wasn’t until Europeans arrived that the landscape experienced major human impacts.
The ‘New Bradfield’ scheme seeks to revive a nation-building ethos supposedly stifled by bureaucratic inertia. But there are good reasons the scheme never became a reality.
Instead of suppressing wildfire, the Karuk Tribe in the Pacific Northwest is using it as an integral part of its climate change management plan. Federal, state and local agencies are taking note.
To save what’s left of nature on this increasingly human planet, conservation needs to become a top priority around the world, from the wildest of wildlands to the densest of cities.
History has told us Aboriginal people in Tasmania almost exclusively occupied open plains. Revelations to the contrary could transform modern conservation.
More than one-fifth of global warming emissions come from land use. Sustainable farming can make soil healthier and better able to soak up carbon, while saving energy and boosting food production.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Murramarang and Walbunga Elder, Indigenous Knowledge
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PhD candidate, Macquarie University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Landscape Ecologist, The University of Queensland
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
