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Most read science stories of 2019

18 Dec 2019

This year's most popular science stories took readers from melting Antarctic ice sounding the alarm on microbes and climate change, to a pest-proof fence to protect native wildlife in far western NSW, and early signs of life in ancient rocks in the Pilbara, WA.

Hippos can be aggressive if you get too close

Spying on hippos with drones to help conservation efforts

10 Dec 2019

A new UNSW study has shown that using a drone to film hippos in Africa is an effective, affordable tool for conservationists to monitor the threatened species’ population from a safe distance, particularly in remote and aquatic areas.

Martina de Marcos dives in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Martina’s fight against not-so-fantastic plastic

04 Dec 2019

Martina de Marcos, a final year UNSW Sydney Masters student, has helped to ban single use plastic bags in developing nations through grassroots activism.

An underwater quest to restore our endangered seagrass meadows

18 Nov 2019

A beautiful seagrass is endangered in parts of NSW, but a team of “underwater gardeners” led by a UNSW marine ecologist is working to stem its decline.

'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time

23 Sep 2019

Himalayan villages are growing food in the forests, a traditional model that can fight both land clearing and world hunger.

Australia should give victims a voice in tackling environmental crimes

06 Jun 2019

Evidence shows restorative justice can help fix environmental crime – so why isn't Australia using it more?

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UNSW launches ambitious plan on World Environment Day

05 Jun 2019

UNSW Sydney will switch to 100% renewable electricity, expand onsite solar energy generation and improve energy and water efficiency to reduce the University’s environmental footprint.

We can 'rewild' swathes of Australia by focusing on what makes it unique

27 Feb 2019

Rewilding is gaining popularity around the world, as a means to restore ecosystems to their ancient state. But just like Vegemite, Australian rewilding projects need to have a unique flavour.

Future ‘ocean cities’ need green engineering above and below the waterline

26 Mar 2018

Artificial islands emerging from the oceans are regarded as 'engineering marvels'. But little attention is paid to how these human-made structures affect sea life.

Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs in the world's 'loneliest tree'

20 Feb 2018

Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer and Mark Maslin suggest that a single tree provides a potential marker for the start of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch dominated by human activity.

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