Posts – Page 57 – ECOS
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Digital agriculture in northern Australia
CSIRO’s Digital Dashboard helps farmers optimise stock and pasture performance by combining in-depth on-farm data with global information on markets and weather.
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Building total system health around northern Australian development
A total system approach to health and biosecurity risk assessment is not only good for northern Australia, but also for sustaining Australia’s healthy population and economy.
![Aerial photo of a large rectangular earth dam among crops and trees](https://i0.wp.com/ecos.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/on-farm-water-storage.jpg?resize=385%2C256&ssl=1)
The right water mix for the north: options and opportunities
Cost-effective development of northern Australia’s water resources for agriculture requires a more holistic look at the opportunities.
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Creating Indigenous jobs and looking after country
Jobs, income, protecting cultural sites: northern Indigenous communities reap other benefits from looking after country.
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Eye in the sky on reef pollution
Spotting an oil spill in a 2,300 km long marine park is no easy task, but new remote sensing technology is set to change that.
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A new spin on ocean eddies and marine primary production
Our understanding of the ocean’s biological pump, and the capacity of the ocean to sequester carbon dioxide, has been enhanced by a new study examining ocean eddies.
![A tamarin in among tree branches and leaves eating a bright orange fruit.](https://i0.wp.com/ecos.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tamarin_Marcio-Cabral-de-Moura_Flickr.jpg?resize=385%2C256&ssl=1)
Tropical forest carbon storage at risk from defaunation
Disappearing vertebrates are affecting the structure and carbon storage capacity of tropical forests.
![A beach facing slope with homes damaged by bushfire](https://i0.wp.com/ecos.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Wye-River.jpg?resize=385%2C256&ssl=1)
Safety among the gum trees for Wye River
Our leading bushfire risk expert Justin Leonard has been working with the community and a wider Advisory Panel to develop a set of voluntary guidelines that will help improve the townships resilience to bushfire.
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Are toxic algal blooms the new normal for Australia’s major rivers?
Blooms of toxic blue-green algae were unheard of in Australia's major waterways before 1991. Now the Murray River is experiencing its fourth bloom in a decade.