CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences (CES) conducts research and development across a range of disciplines, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

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.

The latest advances in soil science and how they can provide solutions for a changing world will be the focus of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science opening in Brisbane today.

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.

CSIRO is providing sensor web and smart sensor network solutions to the agricultural sector.

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.

On 30 June 2010, Dr Jim Cullen presented an overview of the history of CSIRO's Division of Entomology from 1928 to 2010. Watch his presentation in the video below (73:12) or download the PowerPoint slides. (177 pages)

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.