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Despite the economic effects of the global financial crisis (GFC), carbon dioxide emissions from human activities rose 2 per cent in 2008 to an all-time high of 1.3 tonnes of carbon per capita per year, according to a paper published today in Nature Geoscience.

CSIRO staff - past and present - converged on the CSIRO Alice Spring’s Heath Road laboratory last Friday to farewell their research hub of more than three decades.

A symposium entitled: Biosecurity in the New Bioeconomy: Threats and Opportunities, will be hosted by CSIRO at the Shine Dome in Canberra from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November.

A new CSIRO research centre to help transform Australian electricity networks and lower greenhouse gas emissions was opened today at the CSIRO Energy Centre in Newcastle, NSW.

New guidelines for open pit slope design have been released for the first time in more than 30 years.

The first summit between Australia and China on the topic of future information and communication technologies (ICT) is underway in Shanghai.

Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.

CSIRO today signed a five-year, $25m strategic research alliance agreement with one of Australia’s leading public companies – Orica Limited.

CSIRO has developed a novel coating technology, "Quench Coat", to protect galvanised products from 'white rust' – the form of zinc oxide that tarnishes freshly galvanised coatings, making them look dull.

The first comprehensive and critical examination of Australia’s local and regional management of land, water and biodiversity was released today in a book published by CSIRO.

There has been a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Hendra virus following the development of a treatment which shows great potential to save the lives of people who become infected with the virus.

Two CSIRO scientists have been honoured at Australia’s premier science awards – the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

CSIRO has licensed its patented Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer polymerisation technology, RAFT, to a recently established US biotechnology company, PhaseRx.

CSIRO researchers have identified wheat and barley lines resistant to Crown Rot – a disease that costs Australian wheat and barley farmers $79 million in lost yield every year.

A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway.

An Australian method for assessing the environmental impact of marine fisheries has caught the eye of fishery management agencies worldwide.

An initial round of grants from the rejuvenated Science and Industry Endowment Fund will enhance Australia’s world-leading research capabilities in wireless technologies and help to address the nation’s need for more skilled scientists.

CSIRO’s Group Executive Agribusiness, Dr Joanne Daly, has been appointed Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) based in Copenhagen.

Researchers are building the environmental equivalent of the ASX200 as a means of monitoring the health of Australian marine ecosystems.

CSIRO scientists in Adelaide are undertaking a study to test simple strategies to help parents get their kids off the couch and provide them with healthier foods.

Australian farmers feed over 60 million people a day and CSIRO research aims to maintain and grow this productivity in the face of the significant challenges of greenhouse gas abatement, climate change and land degradation.

Dr Cathy Foley from CSIRO’s Materials Science and Engineering Division was today awarded the NSW Nokia Business Innovation Award in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards.

CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed. 

African Big Headed, Yellow Crazy, Tropical Fire and Singapore ants are only small foot soldiers, but vast colonies of these invasive insects are wreaking havoc throughout northern Australia - causing major environmental, economical and social damage.

From the behaviour of invasive ants in northern Australia, finding black holes in space, to making better wireless computer networks, CSIRO has recognised the outstanding work of some of its scientists and staff today at a ceremony in Melbourne.