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Designing digital health with community

Jul 20, 2021

Digital health solutions could do great things for the wellness and wellbeing of Indigenous communities. But respect and trust between researchers and community is key.

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Turning up the heat on marine climate adaptation

Jul 19, 2021

In the face of climate change, innovative science and cultural knowledge will be critical for protecting ecosystems, marine life and livelihoods.

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Experts unite to help cities solve unprecedented climate challenges

Jul 9, 2021

With extreme events impacting our cities more than ever before, twenty-two experts from around the globe have the technological, environmental and social answers.

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Deep sea delights: this coral species, Victorgorgia eminens, and its snake star symbiont, was discovered living in the seamounts off the coast of Tasmania

Issue 279 - Oceans: Lives and livelihoods

Issue 280 – Heal Country!

When Country is healthy, we’re healthy. This issue, we’re celebrating NAIDOC week by speaking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples leading CSIRO’s research. From research co-designed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and commissioned by communities, to protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property, we’re celebrating the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are leading the way in sustainable futures for communities and Country.

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Advancing Australia’s capability to harvest oceans of data

Australia’s oceans are big, beautiful and bountiful in resources. Our national ocean research vessel Investigator delivers the capability to help us understand and protect them.

Longtail tuna fish in a basket

DNA reveals new population diversity in Indian Ocean’s tuna stocks

New DNA and microchemistry analysis reveals multiple populations among the Indian Ocean’s tunas and will underpin improved fisheries management.

Deep sea delights: this coral species, Victorgorgia eminens, and its snake star symbiont, was discovered living in the seamounts off the coast of Tasmania

Coral finds in the unknown: welcome to the ocean benthic zone

CSIRO scientists are finding life in Australia’s cold-water ocean depths that few humans ever see.

Tuna in cane baskets on a dock, being inspected by people

Supporting sustainable fishing in Indonesia

With a team at CSIRO’s Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart, Helen O'Neill is working to make fish identification easier for Indonesian fishery workers.

Looking up at a eucalptus forest canopy

What nature is worth: The rise of natural capital accounting

Behavioural drivers key to agriculture’s sustainable transition

Precision agriculture for the management of agripests
A sheep and lambs

Reducing disease and agrichemicals in livestock production systems