🌏️ Here's your look at #GlobalChange 2025. CO₂ growth slowed and temperatures eased slightly from last year's records due to Pacific natural cooling. Greenhouse gas levels and temperatures remain historically extreme.
Find out more at ausenv.tern.org.au
#AusEnv2025
🦇 Happy #BatAppreciationDay!
Did you know that TERN is creating the world’s largest online library of #batcalls, to be used for identification and #biodiversity monitoring in Australia?
Read all about it here: buff.ly/LjXt6eX
Check out the data: buff.ly/y2pHi9H
🌳📡 Professor Jason Beringer is moving onto new adventures beyond TERN, so we're taking the opportunity to share some of his long-term contributions to #ecosystemscience and the #fluxcommunity!
Read all about it here: buff.ly/kjDVtUC
🎮 Staying at the forefront of long-term #environmental monitoring means keeping a close eye on emerging technologies. TERN’s involvement with #drone based #remotesensing is a great example of this.
Read the full article: buff.ly/yvt1Y5t
🌿 Here's your look at Australia's environmental indicators!
The #AusEnv2025 report brings together key indicators on #climate, land, water, oceans, atmosphere and #biodiversity, revealing how our country's environment is changing and where pressures are growing.
Find out more at ausenv.tern.org.au
📸 The WildObs team's upcoming #webinar 'WildObs Database: From Field to Discovery', will cover data entry and curation, delivery, sensitive data governance, attribution & #FAIRdata principles for #cameratrap ecology.
📅 16 April, 12:30pm AEST
Register: buff.ly/5sEmFDi
🏞️ Australia's environment had an above-average 2025—good rainfall, recovering soils, vegetation and improved management. But #climatechange is rapidly damaging marine #ecosystems and pushing species toward extinction.
Read more: buff.ly/nJGikjc
#AusEnv2025
📊 New report, new data visualiser!
Australia's Environment Data Explorer gives access to summaries as maps, accounts and charts. View by point, region or landcover, compare with previous years or download.
Explore the data at ausenv.tern.org.au
#AusEnv2025 #DataExplorer #EnvironmentalMonitoring
👏 Thank you to everyone who joined us at our #webinar on 'Nature's Litter, Nature's Treasure', yesterday. A special thank you to our guest speakers Prof. Heather Throop, Prof. Mark Hovenden & Dr Jacqui England for their time & expert insights.
Missed it? Watch now: www.tern.org.au/webinars/nat...
A Pink-tailed Worm-lizard.
For this #WildlifeWednesday is the vulnerable Pink-tailed Worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella). These worm-like lizards can grow up to 24cm and spend much of their time in burrows made by ants or termites, feeding on the eggs and larvae of the ants inhabiting the same burrow!
📷 Geoff Heard
#WildOz
📰 The latest TERN Director's Update is now live — explore the release of the latest Australia's Environment report, the TERN-CSIRO NatureScape project, the launch of the National Marine Science Strategy, and more.
Read the full update: buff.ly/rrWTo1Y
#NCRISimpact #CommunityNews
📝 Find a scorecard for your area, now all the way down to suburbs! Use the search tool to find a scorecard by region name, or enter an address or place name to locate your region.
Download your scorecard: ausenv.tern.org.au/scorecards/
#AusEnv2025 #monitoring #environment
📣 Don't miss out on this week's #webinar, 'Nature's Litter, Nature's Treasure'.
📅 Wednesday, 1 April
⏰ 3pm AEST
International experts tackle the challenge of how do we take vastly different processes & create coherent national models that actually work.
Register: buff.ly/TiRHSGg
💡 Check out Australia's Environment 2025 in brief! The video summarises key takeaways from the annual report, which compiles observations on the trajectory of our natural resources and ecosystems.
Visit ausenv.tern.org.au to learn more!
#AusEnv2025
🌊 Wonderful to see many #NCRIS people at the National Marine Science Strategy launch. The strategy aims to enable the #ocean economy while addressing threats to Australia's #coasts and oceans. TERN Australia helps monitor coastal ecosystems and sea-level inundation.
🍂 We're happy to share that Dr Jacqui England will be our final speaker at our next #webinar. Jacqui is a forest ecologist with expertise in the measurement and modelling of carbon dynamics in woody #vegetation and soils and the influence of #climate.
Register now: buff.ly/lshfwcQ
💧 Artesian springs and dryland #oases are vital lifelines with #ecological and cultural value, yet among the planet’s most threatened. We examine these aquifers, their role in #biodiversity and culture and why conserving them matters.
Read more: buff.ly/0RHqqTG
📰 Check out the latest summary article of the annual Australia's Environment report in @aunz.theconversation.com, to find out how our Australian environment fared in 2025.
#AusEnv2025 #biodiversity #monitoring #data #environment
🍂 We're happy to share that Professor Mark Hovenden will be speaking at our April #webinar! Mark is a #plant ecologist with an interest in how plant communities are comprised, interact and behave, leading to the function of the #ecosystem.
Register here: buff.ly/lshfwcQ
🍂 We're thrilled to announce that Professor Heather Throop will be our first speaker at our upcoming #webinar 'Nature's Litter, Nature's Treasure'. Heather is an ecosystem scientist who studies how global-scale changes influence #arid and semi-arid #ecosystems.
Register: buff.ly/1h2gAVJ
🌍♻️ Happy #GlobalRecyclingDay!
Today, we’re celebrating more than #recycling. We’re celebrating the power of #circulareconomies to build stronger, more resilient ecosystems. Every choice we make helps close the loop and protect the environment, and the world we all share.
🌳🌧️ Find out next week!
The Australia's Environment 2025 report will launch Tuesday, 24 March 2026. Keep an eye on our socials to find out how to access the report once it's live.
@anufennerschool.bsky.social
#NCRISimpact #AusEnv2025 #environment
📣 Register now for TERN's April #webinar!
📅 Wednesday, 1 April 2026
⏰ 3pm AEST
Join international experts as they explore creating national models from diverse processes, like photobleached leaves and ancient organic matter.
Register now: buff.ly/1h2gAVJ
🌳 Deep inside TERN’s Robson Creek Supersite in Far North Queensland, a silent shift is underway. The forest looks alive, but the data tells another story. What happens when a #carbonsink becomes a #carbonsource?
Listen to the Living Planet #podcast: www.dw.com/en/rainfores...
For this #WildlifeWednesday is the vulnerable Yellow-bellied Glider (south-eastern; Petaurus australis australis) which occurs from central Qld down to western Vic. This nocturnal and vocal marsupial lives in small family groups and can glide over 100m!
📹 Nicolas Rakotopare
#WildOz
🦇 Since its launch in 2022, TERN’s #EcoAcoustics database has become the world’s largest centralised library of #batcalls. We speak to ecologist Simon Robson to find out how this is enabling remarkable progress in #microbat research.
Read the full article: buff.ly/XJOPIpB
📣 Mark your calendars! You're invited to attend TERN's April webinar.
'Nature's Litter, Nature's Treasure'
📅 Wednesday, 1 April 2026
⏰ 3pm (AEST)
Registrations for our upcoming webinar will be opening soon, watch this space for details.
#webinar #nature #environment
A Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar) on a rocky surface with its head raised. Green vegetation in the background.
The vulnerable Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar) is up next for #WildlifeWednesday. This grassland specialist is found in parts of NSW, ACT, Vic and SA. Females begin to breed at 3-4 years old and usually lay two eggs a year during early summer!
📷 Geoff Heard
#WildOz
🧬 #eDNA is becoming increasingly useful in #biodiversity research and #conservation. But what is eDNA, exactly? We speak with environmental scientist Dr Michelle Guzik from Adelaide University to learn more.
Read the full article: buff.ly/AnSBMSf
🐨 Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! We're highlighting biodiversity #conservation & species protection with the TERN-managed @aus-tsx.bsky.social. The TSX, the first of its kind, offers reliable measures of changes in the abundance of Australia's #threatenedspecies at various levels.
Learn more: tsx.org.au
