Urban Ecology

Trees play a key role in the religious and cultural observances of peoples around the world. The tree is central to Easter as well as Christmas. Photo: Joshua Earle
Culture

Into the woods: an Easter meditation on trees

By — April 15, 2019

Long Island garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, features planted indigenous vegetation of the Lower Yarra River. Photo: Molonglo
Culture

It’s okay to garden if you listen to the landscape

By — April 5, 2019

2019 is the international year of indigenous languages. A favourite story this month suggests we learn the original names of Australian trees.
Environment

Foreground reads: our pick from around the web in March

By — April 4, 2019

The 'upside-down' Yarra River / Birrarung flows through a city of 5 million people. New efforts aim to clean up its reputation along with its water.
Cities

Detoxing the river: toward a swimmable Yarra

By — March 1, 2019

Dark skies are vital to our wellbeing but they are increasingly rare. Photo: of Duane Hamacher, Wild Researchers UNSW by Tamara Dean
Cities

Killing us softly: the perils of light pollution

By — February 21, 2019

Powerplants is a design-led, multi-disciplinary phytoremediation research project at Sydney's White Bay Power Station. Photo: Jedidiah-Cranfield
Cities

Power Plants: Turning Brownfields Green

By — February 20, 2019

Just 40 minutes from a city of 5 million people, the Western Treatment Plant provides a constructed wetland for over 100 bird species.
Environment

In Australia, a sewage facility is now one of the world’s greatest bird habitats

By — January 30, 2019

Cairns foreshore against a backdrop of the Lamb Range and its tropical forest Image: Jorge Lascar
Planning

“Resort tourism meets rainforest feral”? It’s time to rethink the tropical city

By — November 28, 2018

Bird feeding has brought humans and non-humans together for millenia. Image: Marcus Ward
Environment

Healthy cities are more-than-human

By — October 25, 2018

Houtan Park, Shanghai. A restorative design constructed wetlands over a former brownfield site. Image: Turrenscape.
Environment

Beyond the desal’ plant: water security in a post-carbon world

By — June 8, 2017

Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO surveying Marrickville PS' freshly minted greens.
Environment

From asphalt jungle to edible landscape

By — June 2, 2017

CSIRO grassfire experiment. Image courtesy of the CSIRO.
Environment

Survival of the ‘ecologically literate’

By — May 23, 2017