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Soil: Understanding
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends South Australian Gulf Tasmania Understanding the current state and condition of Australian soils requires an appreciation of their diversity and their ability to support different forms of land use. It also requires...
Soil: Salinity and acidification
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends Murray Darling East Coast Greater Sydney Soil salinity Secondary dryland salinity has been one of Australia’s most costly forms of land degradation. Most annual crops, such as wheat, are susceptible to...
Soil: Formation and erosion
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends Murray Darling East Coast Greater Sydney Under steady state, erosion rates are equal to soil formation rates. The fastest rates of soil formation occur in dune sands in moist environments, where weakly...
Increases in greenhouse gases
2016 , Report Content2016 Climate Pressures Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin Greater Hobart Greater Melbourne Human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels during the past 250 years, has caused well-quantified increases in...
Trends in emissions
2016 , Report Content2016 Climate Pressures Greater Melbourne Greater Sydney Absolute aggregate emissions Between 1990 and 2015, Australia’s national GHG inventory suggested that emissions decreased 0.1 per cent (Figure ATM10)....
Soil: Carbon dynamics
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends South Australian Gulf Tasmania Carbon dynamics In light of international agreements such as the Paris Agreement—which emerged from the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on...
Sustainability and sector management
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North Marine North West Managing for externalities Climate variability and longer-term change Australia is a world leader in the...
