Research stories
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12 Nov 2020
The rise of Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
4 Nov 2020
Imagine if the world was able to release its grip on fossil fuels and satisfy its growing appetite for energy, with a clean fuel source.
28 Oct 2020
We will remember 2020 as a year of crisis. COVID-19 hit Australia just as we were beginning to make sense of the horror bushfires and smoke of last summer, a...
27 Oct 2020
Rapidly falling cost of renewable energy generation brings $2/kg goal closer
26 Oct 2020
Emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have had dramatic impacts in the Indo-Pacific region. The COVID-19 shock has reverberated through food systems...
16 Oct 2020
News that half the corals in the Great Barrier Reef have been lost in the past two decades is alarming enough, but experts say alarm at findings of dramatic...
9 Oct 2020
The risks of climate change are generally considered by the UN climate panel to be higher today than the estimates of 20 years ago.
8 Oct 2020
Across most forest types and ages, thinning had little impact on the severity of Black Saturday fires in Victoria, ANU study suggests
6 Oct 2020
Five ANU Solar Photovoltaic projects have shared in $3.2 m in Australian Government funding.
2 Oct 2020
Early people were rapidly adapting to climate change as they made their way towards Australia tens of thousands of years ago, new research shows.
25 Sep 2020
The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood.
17 Sep 2020
The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet could contribute half a metre of sea-level rise in the coming century, a significant increase to estimates from just...