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A new study finds that monitoring the behaviour of farmed fish using tags can provide scientists with important information – but it can also create welfare issues.

Students have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can identify individual feral cats in the wild in what could be a step forward in the fight to control them.

Hundreds of companies, including major emitters like United Airlines, BP and Shell, have pledged to reduce their impact on climate change and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

New research works out where and when to apply planned fire for the benefit of kangaroos and other Australian animals in a time of rapid environmental change.

A Roadmap to fast-track flourishing green roofs, walls and facades in Australian cities released today promotes six positive actioned based strategies to help grow green cities. Researchers collaborating on the project also say the recommendations could provide a COVID-19 stimulus and support recovery.

Australia needs new business models between industry and agriculture to inspire investment in trees on farms in order to guarantee the country’s future timber resources.

Australia’s trees have evolved with fire, most needing some fire for renewal, but now our forests have had too much severe fire

While completing her Master of Ecosystem Forest Science , Cleo got the opportunity of a lifetime to intern with the UN in Thailand.

Research to improve the quality of public landscapes is among three projects awarded $1.4 million from the Australian Research Council

Burned forests in steep mountains can be just as hazardous after the rains come and flames have been extinguished. And the risks are increasing, so what can be done?

The massive scale of these bushfires heightens the risk to animal populations and species - and as climate change bites the onus will increasingly be on us to protect and foster our wildlife.

Urban greening is emerging as a key part of the solution to some of our major health and environmental challenges. Providing nearby nature offers a surprising range of co-benefits.

A rapid rise in global temperatures would lead to more extremes, whereas a more gradual and stabilised rate of climate change would decrease the temperatures we would experience

Cleo Riddy discusses her experience exchanging her full-time job in Canberra for a once in a lifetime role with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand.

As the world’s biggest rainforest continues to burn, it’s important to understand the political and social situation in Brazil that led us to this point

Many of us may think the wet, humid conditions in a rainforest makes them unburnable, but bushfires in Australia and the Amazon are proving otherwise

Dr Claire Farrell and John Rayner from the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences (SEFS) combine beauty and biodiversity in the heart of Melbourne.

For mid-year orientation 2019, students were offered a plant form the Ecosystem Science major as a Plant Companions to accompany them throughout their science journey.

Urban forests are great for keeping our cities cool, but as temperatures go up they need water to survive - and that’s where redirecting storm water to street trees comes in

The University of Melbourne has partnered with the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning (DELWP) and the City of Melbourne on a research project to retrofit the building that houses the office of the Victorian Premier with a green roof.

The BioInspiration Seed Funding Competition is designed to have teams develop creative, nature-inspired solutions to global/ practical/ human technological and design challenges.

There have been more than 50 formal inquiries into bushfire management in south-eastern Australia since 1939, but what lessons have we learned?

The Bushfire and National Hazards CRC and its predecessors have been supporting research in the Faculty of Science since 2013. Recently, the BNHCR gave funding for three projects out of the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences.

Professor Rodney Keenan and MFES graduate Mr Jesse Mahoney represented SEFS at the event.

Dr Matthew Burns and Professor Tim Fletcher attended and contributed to a global symposium in America, while research exchange student and current Yale Fox Fellow Ana Elisa Lambert presented at forum in Brazil.

Associate Professor Trent Penman speaks to ABC Radio's Linda Mottram about the recent fires in south-western Victoria and the south coast of New South Wales.