Author and UWA graduate Julian Cribb provides specialist consultancy in the communication of science, agriculture, food, mining, energy and the environment. He was formerly scientific editor of The Australian and Director of National Awareness for the CSIRO and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. His book The Coming Famine queries whether we can feed humanity through the mid-century peak in population. In a letter to the journal Nature he made the case for... Re-naming the human race: by Julian Cribb FTSE

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Just as women used to sit in groups weaving together, more than 100 women (and men) at UWA sat together in the Tropical Grove, listening to Carolyn Oldham weave together the threads of her vision for a resilient and excellent university.

For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians burned forests to promote grasslands for hunting and other purposes. Recent research suggests that these burning practices also affected the timing and intensity of the Australian summer monsoon.