Environment
More than just seawalls – a trigger-based approach to coastal defences
Keeping coastal environments safe from erosion is a challenging task that can require more refined approaches than simple seawalls.
Engineering agricultural solutions to climate change
Agtech startup Regrow founder and aeronautical engineer Anastasia Volkova is pioneering food production processes to better withstand floods, droughts and...
As federal election approaches, both parties fall short on climate
Engineers Australia National President Nick Fleming says neither major party is bringing to the election a policy suited to the...
This World Water Day, we spotlight our most precious resource — groundwater
World Water Day 2022: We demystify Australia’s most precious resource, groundwater, and why it’s so important we future proof it...
To build back wiser, engineers must demonstrate value
Engineers hold many of the solutions needed to tackle climate change and achieve the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
School student engineers solution to plastic pollution
When year 12 student Tamsyn Burley came up with a way to stop plastic pollution entering her city’s waterways, teaming...
AI is playing a role in preserving the world’s natural habitats
Disappearing some three times faster than forests, wetlands are earth’s most threatened ecosystem. A tool from Melbourne Water aims to...
What engineers can do to make the next decade count
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow recently calling on all nations to strengthen their emissions reduction targets...
Rising risk: the danger of doing nothing on climate change
“Climate action failure,” said Emilio Granados Franco, “is an existential threat to humanity that is going to start showing its...
‘We’re short of leaders and trees’: Paul Polman’s sobering speech spurs action from engineers
It was 2.30 am in Dubai when Paul Polman, Co-Founder and Chair of IMAGINE, delivered an alarming wake up call...
