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GRDC interim managing director Cathie Warburton said the organisation is looking to support PhD students in diverse areas such as data and analytics,...

Last year when Australian barley imports were imposed as punitive grounds, the grain feared that farmers would reduce the industry by $ 2 billion.But

When China imposed punitive tariffs on Australian barley imports last year, grain growers worried that this would weaken an industry worth 2 billion Australian dollars. But twelve months later Beijing shot In the trade dispute with Canberra, growers limited damage by opening new markets in Asia and Latin America. “It is disappointing that we participated in the competition for political purposes and we lost the premium we received from selling products to China,” said Mic Fels, a farmer in...

Date Time Tune into growers’ stubble management insights Stripper fronts are one of the featured topics in a new podcast series about stubble management. Photo: Liz Wells ©GRDC. Seeding may be an opportune time for growers to reflect on refinements they could make to seeding systems to handle higher residue stubbles, or to evaluate how they could manage stubble differently at harvest. A new Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) podcast series provides food for though...

news Biden climate summit: New pledges to cut emissions still fall short dw.com 2 hrs ago Ajit Niranjan The United States and several other nations have pledged to cut carbon emissions faster, putting pressure on other big polluters to clean up their acts. © Fabian Bimmer/Reuters Climate activists and scientists are calling on world leaders to fulfil their pledges to limit global heating US President Joe Biden promised to halve his countrys greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 ...

Tropical System Could Ease Bushfire Danger in Bone-Dry Western Australia Written by AZoCleantechFeb 8 2021 Bushfires have forced some Australians to flee COVID-19 lockdowns in the Perth area in whats being called an "unprecedented situation." A tropical system off the coast could ease fire concerns but may trigger other problems. In this photo provided by Department of Fire and Emergency Services, a firefighter attends to a fire near Wooroloo, northeast of Perth, Australia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 202...

Our national research suggests simply telling people to get more insurance is not necessarily the answer. To understand that, we need ask why people are underinsured. After disaster strikes, insurance is not always there as needed — or as expected. AAP Image/James Gourley Why are so many underinsured? A lot of underinsurance is by accident rather than design. After being burnt out by Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, one of our interviewees, Bridget*,...

February has already been a bad month for Perth. Bushfire has destroyed 81 homes and burned more than 10,000 hectares northeast of the city. Residents in the midst of a COVID-19 lockdown were told to abandon their homes and seek shelter as the bushfire raged. The disaster calls to mind the unprecedented Black Summer fires that devastated eastern Australia last summer. But the tragedies are very different beasts. Obviously, the Black Summer fires were much more widespread, prolonged and lethal ...

The city and parts of Western Australia were already under a strict five-day lockdown after a security guard at a hotel used as a quarantine facility in Perth tested positive for coronavirus Monday. This may seem like overkill for just one case, but these types of aggressive measures have kept Australia’s total deaths during the pandemic to less than 1,000. The quarantine in Australia’s fourth-largest city was scheduled to lift Friday, but officials told residents that evacuation orders an...

PHOTOGALLERY World | News18.com | February 2, 2021, 4:28 pm 1/ 6 Firefighters attend a fire at Wooroloo, near Perth, Australia, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed an estimated 30 homes and was threatening more Tuesday, with many locals across the region told it is too late to leave. (Evan Collis/DFES via AP) 2/ 6 In this photo provided by Department of Fire and Emergency Services, flames approach ...