Ecos

In response to the recent Ecos article, 'The green frontier: RNAi biotechnology's promising applications' (Ecos 125), which made reference to aquaculture's offsetting of fishing intensity on wild fish stocks, Adele Pedder of the Australian Marine Conservation...

The oceans are our last unexplored frontier. Although Australia is the world's largest island nation, its surrounding seas make up almost twice the size of the country's landmass. Most of what lies within and beneath them still awaits discovery. ...

Prawn fishers and scientists have spent the last 10 years investigating the best way to reduce the wasteful bycatch of undersize prawns and important non-target fish species, such as juvenile bream, luderick and snapper, during commercial prawn trawling...

Once regarded as a peculiarity for its attention to the health of soil, organic farming is moving steadily into the mainstream as demand for organic produce has surged. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that the US, European Union...

Most people appreciate that healthy, sustainable landscapes must balance the competing demands of agriculture, industry and the environment. But in planning for the future, some tough decisions have to be made about the best way to configure land,...

Nature's good works, the 'ecosystem services' on which all life on Earth depends--and which actually underpin our entire economy--have long been taken for granted. In modern society we've tended to undervalue such integral environmental provisions...

Construction is underway of a new plant that will transform liquid radioactive waste into a unique, synthetic rock product--known as 'synroc'--developed in Australia. The technology is drawing international interest for its capacity to safely and permanently...

Nader Khalili, the awarded California-based architect author and teacher of Iranian-American earth architecture, says his ceramic house and earth architecture techniques are also a quick, inexpensive way to build mass shelters for calamity victims....

Research suggests that most farmers could plant trees and shrubs on up to 15 per cent of their land helping farm health, agricultural productivity and income. A new three-way partnership will ensure that farmers, researchers, governments, conservation...