Episodes

  • Wetlands and landowners flourish with environmental watering - Skye Wassens | Peter Morton

    Wetlands and landowners flourish with environmental watering - Skye Wassens | Peter Morton
    Jun 3 2026
    CSU ecologist Skye Wassens and landowner Peter Morton describe their collaboration around Lake Paika near Balranald NSW that is seeing life return to the Western Lakes through environmental watering and pest management. See images and video and hear birds and frogs on the website Mosaic: Life on the Western Lakes > https://media.flow-mer.org.au/mosaic/
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    8 mins
  • Engineering bringing sustainable ideas into practice - Peter Thew

    Engineering bringing sustainable ideas into practice - Peter Thew
    Jun 1 2026
    Gulbali engineering expert Peter Thew has put into practice projects as varied as fishways for native fish migrating around dams in the Mekong River to an award-winning sound chapel in outback NSW. In these cases, he considers the ability of engineering to demonstrate sustainability in practical ways.
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    16 mins
  • Soil salinity through climate change growing in the Mekong Delta - Brooke Kaveney

    Soil salinity through climate change growing in the Mekong Delta - Brooke Kaveney
    May 19 2026
    Hear Brooke Kaveney provide her insights into the role and importance of international agricultural research for farmers in Vietnam and Australia as her team addresses the global climate challenge.
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    18 mins
  • Policies and business for renewables - Simon Wright

    Policies and business for renewables - Simon Wright
    May 7 2026
    How can government policies and private enterprise better enable regional communities to advance their transitions to renewable energy? Energy expert Dr Simon Wright discusses options and a working example in the Bega Valley on the NSW Far South Coast.
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    11 mins
  • The energy transition in regional Australia - Simon Wright

    The energy transition in regional Australia - Simon Wright
    Apr 30 2026
    Regional areas are becoming Australia's powerhouse. How can regional communities reap the benefits?
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    19 mins
  • Adjusting farming to drought in southern Australia - Shawn McGrath

    Adjusting farming to drought in southern Australia - Shawn McGrath
    Mar 29 2026
    Farmers across southern Australia seek to maintain their businesses in the face of a changing climate, particularly during drought. A research team led by Dr Shawn McGrath is comparing how four common farming systems that use crops, livestock and pastures perform in variable seasonal conditions. Dr McGrath compares how these systems have produced grain and fodder crops and lambs during the most recent drought in southern NSW, Australia.
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    17 mins
  • Native fish in the Murray Darling Basin - Ivor Stuart

    Native fish in the Murray Darling Basin - Ivor Stuart
    Mar 26 2026
    Australia’s Murray Darling Basin has undergone fundamental changes since settlers first altered the movement of water across this landscape. Dr Ivor Stuart discusses how these changes have impacted the native fishes that rely on the waters of the Basin for their survival, and what we can do to assist them.
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    13 mins
  • New horizons for monitoring native birds - David Watson

    New horizons for monitoring native birds - David Watson
    Mar 16 2026
    Bird ecologist David Watson discusses how a new AI system that listens to and identifies birds 24/7 across southeastern Australia could change the face of environmental monitoring and conservation across the nation.
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    17 mins