Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

Feature of the week: Although the government has delayed its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least 2013, it is still in the interest of businesses in all sectors to start ...

After ten years of painstaking research into the popular Black Tiger prawn, CSIRO's Food Futures Flagship and Australian prawn farmers have developed a new prawn that is producing ...

The first international conference held in Australia to discuss the science and options for adapting to climate change begins on the Gold Coast on Tuesday 29 June.

Feature of the week: Every year Australian businesses purchase millions of computers, printers and televisions, and throw out their old ones.

Australian scientists have developed a groundbreaking treatment to clean up the highly toxic and persistent foam chemicals used worldwide to fight thousands of fires.

Feature of the week: Farmers are being urged to change their use of chemically produced fertilisers for food production, and utilise an alternative plant food such as compost, to ...

Feeding weeds fertiliser sounds like exactly the wrong thing, if you want to get rid of them, but Jennifer Firn of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems has been doing just that - to control ...

The production of clean energy and the treatment of waste water are set to become easier thanks to ANU researchers.

Australian shoppers, food manufacturers and retailers have a mutual responsibility towards buying, producing and stocking "green" products after a new survey found only 13 per cent ...

Feature of the week: Suffering from low prices, and unpredictable weather patters, are only some of issues farmers have to deal with each and every day.

Auckland scientists studying the unique characteristics of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc have shown that cold storage can triple the shelf-life of the wine by reducing the loss of ...

Industry & Investment NSW (I&I) researchers are helping investigate the genes that control flowering in canola.

Where there is emotional intelligence in the workplace, there are likely to be happy, and productive employees who work as a team.

Feature of the week: With the highest average solar radiation per square meter of any continent in the world, Australia should be one of the hubs for the development of solar power. ...

A fencing project to keep livestock away from exposed lakebeds in South Australia's Lower Lakes region is helping to protect important vegetation and bioremediation works, Federal ...

Feature of the week: It's going to be a dry year in terms of Federal funding for the agricultural sector in 2010/2011, with farmers and agricultural groups around Australia bluntly ...

The koi carp which infest the region's waterways may be susceptible to trapping at key points in their life cycle, a new study has shown.

An aerial view of a typical boat-mooring area in Moreton Bay reveals dozens of bare haloes, patches of sand surrounded by seagrass.

Farmers may soon be able to use their quad bikes to assess feed quality and pasture health.

Feature article of the week: For the construction industry, the recently released 2010-2011 Federal Budget is focusing on building foundations for skill training. This marks a strong ...