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This year, SEED (Sharing and Enabling Environmental Data) celebrates 10 years of helping people find, access and use trusted information about the New South Wales environment.

As SEED celebrates its 10-year anniversary, the platform has won a 2026 Australian Good Design Award for Digital Design – Web Design and Development.

Understanding climate change shouldn't require a scientific background. Read how adaptation, impact and risk science are using SEED to make trusted climate data more accessible, helping...

When Dr Charlotte Simpson-Young needed to find the right vegetation communities for her research, SEED helped her identify 45 sites before a single field visit. Now, she's using the platform...

Creative Commons licensing gives you the freedom to explore, analyse, adapt and reuse SEED data. Find out how this globally recognised licence helps turn environmental information into...

SEED is making it easier for NSW Government teams to publish high-quality environmental data, supporting transparency, reuse and better decision-making across the state.

SEED is the NSW Government’s open data platform bringing together environmental data from across the state, making it freely accessible to those developing real-world solutions to real-world...

DustWatch is one of NSW’s largest and longest-running citizen science programs, playing a vital role in understanding and protecting our environment.