Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A pilot study is now underway in South Australia and other states into how rural communities perceive climate change. The first phase of the study by the Bureau of Rural Sciences has already been carried out in the Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales and Victoria, and has now moved into its second phase, which takes in the other states. Bureau social scientist Mary Milne says the study of 8,000 land-holders will help the Federal Government work on ways it can help rural …