Pollution and threats to the environment

Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth.

Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective answers a host of questions about Australia's weather and climate, and explains the underlying causes of floods, droughts and cyclones.

This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community.

This is the first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world.

With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation.

Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts.

Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts.

Resilience and Transformation explores what factors contribute to Australia's resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us for the immediate and longer term future.

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia's primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change.

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate.

With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story.

This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community.

Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective answers a host of questions about Australia's weather and climate, and explains the underlying causes of floods, droughts and cyclones.

A number of international, high-level science and policy meetings have been influential in the ongoing global climate change negotiations.

This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses.

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Grassfires: Fuel, Weather and Fire Behaviour presents information from CSIRO on the behaviour and spread of fires in grasslands.

Australia’s experience in community-based environmental repair is unique in the world, with no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists.

The unpredictability of Australia’s climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate.

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services.

It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity.

Australia's experience in community-based environmental repair is unique in the world, with no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists.

The unpredictability of Australia's climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate.

This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses.

It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity.

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate.

Resilience and Transformation explores what factors contribute to Australia’s resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us for the immediate and longer term future.

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change.

With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country’s Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands.

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment.

Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

The mind-blowing, time-warping science fiction epic that puts grand scientific ideas into a thrilling page-turning narrativeFresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.

How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?

This book focusses on climate change and sustainable scientific and technological solutions.

What on earth is happening to our planet?

The book comprehensively analyses whether a State may be held responsible for environmental damage resulting from its wrongful conduct in international armed conflict.

Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises.

This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods.

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe.

International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change.

This guide synthesizes the most current information available on the pests and environmental conditions that can damage California's conifers, the vast majority of native trees in the state.