More than 10,000 leaves from 60 plant species found between Far North Queensland and southern NSW are being propagatedScientists plan to build new generation of 'super trees' to tackle climate change.
John and Linda Stanley have just come out the other side of what they are calling "Chestnut growers look to adapt after changing climate causes harvest slump" which produced only 1.7 tonnes of their normal 12-tonne crop.
The lure of barefoot schooling, a tight-knit community and pristine environment has drawn former rugby union Wallaby Adrian Skeggs back to his remote Lord Howe Island home to raise his son. Adrian grew up on the island, and ran barefoot until he was 13 and left to go to boarding school, he's keen for his son to have the same upbringing and this year has made an island change from Sydney to Lord Howe - a world heritage listed island which sits 600 kilometres off the coast of Port Macquarie on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.
Australia failed to grow jojoba in the 1980s, but 40 years on With jojoba products in high demand, the beauty of this crop is more than skin deep.
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The Big Scrub is descended from the Gondwana rainforest that covered Australia 40 million years ago.