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.

An understanding of soil and landscape attributes and processes is required in order to sustain productive capacity and the ecosystem services that soils provide.

CSIRO is a world leader in farming systems research, plant physiology and advanced microscopy.

The Subsea Pipeline Collaboration Cluster combines the research capabilities of six universities and the Wealth from Oceans Flagship. The cluster will deliver science-based engineering solutions for the safe and economic design and operation of subsea pipelines in Australia’s deepwater frontiers.

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.

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.

Details of the research areas, achievements, partnerships and capacity of the Healthy Water Ecosystems Theme, part of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship. (4 pages)

This fact sheet draws on CSIRO research to answer some of the common questions about soil carbon and biochar.

This report Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential: A review for Australian agriculture includes a review of the process by which carbon is captured and stored in agricultural soils and an analysis of the current evidence for changes in soil organic carbon stocks resulting from agricultural land use changes.