Bushfires

Providing a coordinated approach to materials design, creation, characterisation and application.

CSIRO can develop new, composite materials that can improve the design and fabrication of products, introducing new qualities such as lightness and corrosion resistance.

A vulnerability assessment released today by CSIRO and the Sydney Coastal Councils Group (SCCG) will help Sydney coastal councils understand their vulnerability to climate change and prepare to adapt to potential impacts.

The latest issue of ECOS reports on a massive research effort to accurately map the Murray–Darling Basin’s surface water and groundwater resources.

The Healthy Water Ecosystems Theme, as part of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, is working to increase knowledge and develop tools for the management, protection and restoration of Australia’s water ecosystems.

The Climate Adaptation Flagship's planning, design, infrastructure, management and governance solutions are helping revitalise Australia’s cities and coasts in response to a changing climate.

CSIRO has scientists from a range of disciplines contributing to better regional planning for sustainable habitation of the Australian rangelands and savannas

Sustainable mananagement and habitation of 'Outback' and 'Top End' Australia is an important goal which CSIRO researchers working in arid rangelands and tropical savanna environments are addressing.

Next time you turn off an outdoor light, look more closely at the moths around it. You’ll often see pretty colours and unusual markings, but what you won’t see is the essential role they played in preventing bushfires, even before they hatched. This vodcast explains the secret life of Australia’s moths. (3:06)

The concept of Sentinel Asia is to provide online information from Earth observation satellites in ‘near real-time’ through a network of webGIS services such as the Australian Sentinel Hotspots system. (0.31 secs)

The CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems laboratory in Alice Springs conducts research that addresses regional futures, indigenous livelihoods, conservation planning and management, sustainable agricultural systems and knowledge management in arid and semi-arid rangelands.

The Davies Laboratory is located in Townsville, North Queensland, serves as base for researchers from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO Land and Water and CSIRO Plant Industry.

CSIRO's strategy for engaging and collaborating with Australia's Indigenous community. (2 pages)

The 2006-07 CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) Sustainability Report reports on the annual sustainability performance of CSE's operations and research activities.

A fire requires air, heat and fuel to grow. To control the fire, at least one of them must be removed.

"Alpine grazing reduces blazing" is a widely and strongly held view, in both rural and urban regions, concerning fire in Australia’s high country. CSIRO along with its' partners tested this view following the widespread fires in Victorian high country in 2003.