Agriculture & environment

Dr Greg Moore is Chair of the National Trust's Register for Significant Trees committee and a tireless advocate for arboriculture. Image: supplied.
Agriculture & environment

For Dr Greg Moore, defending living heritage isn’t about the past, but protecting our future

by —March 27, 2020

Smoke blankets south eastern Australia, 4 January 2020. Image: NASA
Agriculture & environment

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in January

by —February 5, 2020

Smoke blankets south eastern Australia, 4 January 2020. Image: NASA
Agriculture & environment

Big smoke: Climate change and the future of urban air

by —January 23, 2020

The endangered southern brown bandicoot is doing well in urban wildlife corridors created by infrastructure provision in Melbourne's suburbs. Photo: John O'Neill
Agriculture & environment

Endangered bandicoots survive and thrive in urban sprawl

by —January 9, 2020

A dead branch of a Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum) plays pitstop for assorted bird life. Photo: Rexness
Agriculture & environment

What good is a dead tree?

by —January 9, 2020

FLIR image showing concentration of heat in a Western Sydney neighbourhood.
Agriculture & environment

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in December

January 8, 2020

New park and skating facilities at Noble Park station precinct. Photo: Peter Bennetts Photography
Agriculture & environment

Take ten: Foreground’s most-read stories in 2019

December 19, 2019

The remnants of Mount Kilimanjaro's fabled fields of snow and ice, as seen from space in 2012. Image: NASA Earth Observatory
Agriculture & environment

How to design with nature now?

by —November 27, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.
Agriculture & environment

Pyrogeographer David Bowman on the art and science of living with fire

by —November 14, 2019

Urban light pollution can disrupt critical behaviours in wildlife, stalling the recovery of threatened species and interfering with ecosystem resilience. Photo: Michael
Agriculture & environment

Seeing the light: new moves to tackle night sky pollution

by —October 30, 2019

Biodiversity loss is the canary in the coalmine of landscape systems health. With one million species currently under threat of extinction globally, what can be done? Photo: Andreas P.
Agriculture & environment

Biodiversity loss: the canary in the coalmine

by —October 29, 2019

Clearings carved from the immensity of the forested Burial Belt could feature floral revegetation. Image: Other Architects
Agriculture & environment

Forest of the dead: beautiful burial for space-poor cities

by —October 3, 2019