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Generating and storing sustainable energy is the holy grail
Transmission lines have fallout. Battery farms are expensive. Repeating Snowy II is out of the question. But there is a simple solution to generating and storing sustainable energy for overnight...
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How can we respond to cow farts and farm emissions?
Early in the climate change journey, two villains were publicly identified – fossil fuels and farting farm animals, in particular, cows and sheep. The most recent statistics from Australia’s...
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Quolls fly in to save the species
Air travel isn’t what it used to be. But a recent journey from New South Wales to Western Australia definitely quoll-ified as unusual. Join Cosmos Country reporters Jamie Seidel and Glenn Morrison as...
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Innovative recyclables replace dangerous silica benchtops
As Australia realises the dangers of working with engineered stone to manufacture benchtops and tiles, one company is bucking the trend to make high-end products largely from recyclables. At a...
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Town finding new solutions to the problem of instability in a renewables’ grid
The central Australian town of Alice Springs – bathed in fierce desert sunlight – is on track to achieve 50% renewable power generation by 2030. But the good news is tempered by – of all things – the...
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Early warning system for water quality passes first test
A milestone first run of a proposed national ‘weather service’ for Australian regional water quality has received a confident thumbs up from the national science agency, CSIRO. The system is being...
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Rescue quolls begin to breed at wildlife park
Animal conservationists in Western Australia are watching with growing excitement a new quoll recovery project – and a mum with multiple babies. Robin Sinclair, a field ecologist with the Australian...
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Sovereignty lost when low lying reefs disappear
Low lying coral Islands form on top of living reefs. Varying in size, the islands arise from sediments of the reef, skeletons and shells of living biota. Sometimes barely a couple of meters above sea...
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Podcast: coral reef islands are at risk
When a low lying coral reef disappears under the ocean forever, there is more at risk than the animals which inhabit it. Low lying reefs in this respect are cays and tiny sand atolls scattered along...
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The road ahead as our weather gets wilder
Even the tough surface of our roads is not immune to the challenges of climate change. The House of Representatives Inquiry into the implications of severe weather events on the national regional,...
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Big Australian Cooperative Research Centre to help lead agriculture to a...
A new agriculture research hub – with the highest level of funding ever for this type of model – has been launched in Queensland to assist farmers with the transition to reducing greenhouse gas...
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Mathematics to help understand flows on unique mound springs
The Great Artesian Basin’s unique mound springs are in danger. A new mathematical model might help by looking at the effects of reduced water extraction on the mounds. Mound springs are unique, an...
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Better groundwater knowledge needed as climate changes
One-third of Australian taps deliver groundwater for our daily use. On the world’s driest inhabited continent, 70% of land is either arid or semi-arid, so it should come as no surprise that 17% of...
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Cosmos Country: A deep dive into our oceans
Australians love the ocean – and we love shipwrecks – so will our love affair help save the seas? Cosmos Country dives into the ocean – or specifically the Ocean Lovers Festival – as Glenn Morrison...
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From refinery to biofuel reactor
A disused Western Australia oil refinery is one step closer to being given a new lease on life as a biofuel reactor and it could help power Australia’s aviation industry towards its 2050 carbon...
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Wagga Wagga’s cool new strategy to tackle climate change
The New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga has used innovative technology to find a cooler way forward as global temperatures climb. Wagga Wagga City Council recently won the Local Government...
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Cosmos Country: Shipwrecks and love for the ocean
Regional communities looking for ways to diversify income and employment under climate change often turn to tourism. Recently, the Australian Tourism Commission created a data hub to help. It shows...
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Energy infrastructure causes quite a stir
A massive transformer is causing quite a stir on the roads of Victoria and New South Wales. Unlike the mega-popular toys, real transformers can’t adapt themselves neatly into a handy form of...
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Cosmos Country: Managing Australia’s coastal bays and estuaries
Water quality is a growing problem. And it’s not just about your local dam or the River Murray. Australia’s coastal bays and estuaries are important on many levels. They’re great places to live....
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Solving the ammonia dilemma
Fertiliser is crucial for Australia’s agriculture industries. But only a few places produce it. So when fighting broke out in the Gulf of Aden and the Black Sea (not to mention the COVID pandemic),...
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