Agriculture & environment

The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's food bowl, had yet another poor season, with less than half its typical rain. Photo: Holder Link
Agriculture & environment

Foreground Weekly Review: water wars

by —September 3, 2019

An experiment in West Australian shrublands mimics climate change to assess soil impacts. Photo: Joe Fontaine
Agriculture & environment

Climate change impacts on soil wreak unseen devastation

by , , , —August 22, 2019

Agriculture & environment

Foreground Weekly Review: The trees and the woods

by —August 6, 2019

Dove Lake in Tasmania, Australia's fastest-growing state for nature-based tourism. An AILA award-winning report on visitor impacts by Inspiring Place landscape architects helped protect the site from inappropriate development. Photo: Inspiring Place
Agriculture & environment

Landscape architects are vital guides to Australia’s tourism growth

by —July 25, 2019

Agriculture & environment

The farmers fighting climate change

by —July 22, 2019

Charleville date farm: recycles all the town's wastewater through a wetland system.
Agriculture & environment

The Foreground five: our most-read stories for June

by —July 11, 2019

The view from Burragorang Lookout shows Lake Burragorang, impounded by Warragamba Dam in the valley below. Photo: popejon2
Agriculture & environment

Raising Warragamba Dam will do far more harm than good

by —July 5, 2019

The fragility and resilience of the land-creating polders of the Netherlands, home to landscape architect Dirk Sijmons.
Agriculture & environment

Design for the Anthropocene: the big-picture landscapes of Dirk Sijmons

by —June 19, 2019

Tenterfield. The author's friend’s farm burning in 2019. Photo: John Mongard
Agriculture & environment

Two degrees: global warming up close and personal

by —June 13, 2019

Recent protests around the world reflect rising popular concern about climate change.
Agriculture & environment

2 Degrees: climate countdown

by —June 12, 2019

Fragrant purple chocolate lily amongst other indigenous wildflower species will be grown by FV for seeding projects.
Agriculture & environment

The Foreground five: our most-read stories for May

by —June 7, 2019

Still from an animated time lapse of sea surface salinity and soil moisture from NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite: April 2015 to February 2019.
Agriculture & environment

Foreground reads: our pick from around the web in May

by —May 29, 2019