CSIRO Land and Water is researching ways to better manage Australia's land and water resources, and improve the quality of our natural and built environments.

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) conducts research and development across a range of landscapes, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

A series of podcasts in Mandarin language were launched in Canberra today which highlight careers in science and in working with Australian science and industry to a potential audience of 1.2 billion people worldwide.

Australia's annual festival of science and technology, National Science Week, begins this weekend.

CSIRO invites you to a range of free public seminars being held around Canberra.

Our research aims to better understand the ecological processes and organisms that support agriculture and native vegetation. The work is important to their management as ecologically sustainable systems.

CSIRO Entomology's research is helping to manage the increasing threat from invasive species and the benefits to agriculture from ecosystem services.

CSIRO supports sound policy and informed decision-making by understanding of the science of contaminants. Tools and models created by CSIRO assist pesticide users and regulators to make informed decisions.

With water conservation such an important issue, it’s surprising that less than one in four commercial irrigators in Australia actually measure the amount of water in their soil. (9:13)

Dr Alan Andersen is a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Darwin, where he studies ant community ecology, the use of ants and other invertebrates as indicators of ecosystem health, and fire ecology and management in tropical savannas.

Dr Jeff Baldock’s primary research areas include soil carbon and nitrogen cycling and the emission of greenhouse gases from soils.

This article from Farming Ahead discusses how the build-up of soil carbon may be more complicated than it seems as it investigates the effects of conservation farming on soil carbon. (2 pages)

Farming Ahead magazine regularly features CSIRO's research for the agricultural sector. This is a list of CSIRO articles published in the magazine throughout 2010.

A summary of the key findings from the Darbas Lawrence study of soil water and farming systems in 2008.

This 4-page information sheet presents information on the burgundy bean, a short lived summer growing legume.