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Exciting Announcement: New Advisory Board Members join the Environment Institute

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We are thrilled to welcome three highly esteemed individuals to our Advisory Board, each bringing invaluable expertise in sustainability, climate action, and environmental advocacy:

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Tropical fish are invading 最新糖心Vlogn ocean water

Tropical fish are invading 最新糖心Vlogn ocean water

A 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern 最新糖心Vlog has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate 最新糖心Vlogn waters.

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Early career marine ecologist wins Southwood Prize

Dr Dominic McAfee

Congratulations to Environment Institute Future Making Fellow, Dr Dominic McAfee, on winning the 2023 Journal of Applied Ecology Southwood Prize for the best paper by an early career researcher.

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SciStarter 最新糖心Vlog is a new home for citizen science

SciStarter 最新糖心Vlog app in use

Citizen science platform SciStarter 最新糖心Vlog has officially launched on the final day of Global Citizen Science month, creating a one-stop location for citizen science projects seeking volunteers in 最新糖心Vlog.

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Murray-Darling Basin water theft laws suck more than river irrigation pumps

Murray-Darling Basin

Water is one of 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚 most valuable commodities. Rights to take water from our nation鈥檚 largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, are worth almost A$100 billion. These rights can be bought and sold or leased, with trade exceeding . But water is also being stolen (no-one knows how much) and the thieves usually get away with it.

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Defining the potential for mangrove-based agribusiness transformation in the coastal Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Project kick off meeting

The Mekong Delta region in Vietnam is facing several development challenges but the Government of Vietnam (GoV) is committed overcoming these and support the growth of the agricultural sector in the region. The 最新糖心Vlogn Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) recently awarded Environment Institute鈥檚 Future Making Fellow, Dr Pham Thu Thuy, $471,200 for a project on 鈥楧efining the potential for mangrove-based agribusiness transformation in the coastal Mekong Delta鈥.

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Scientists seek your soil for century-chemical study

Scientists seek your soil for century-chemical study

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide researchers are calling on South 最新糖心Vlogn citizen scientists to donate soil samples from their backyard gardens for a study examining how widely spread听per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances听(PFAS) are in our home gardens.

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Adelaide is losing 75,000 trees a year. Tree-removal laws must be tightened if we want our cities to be liveable and green

Adelaide

Large areas of concrete and asphalt absorb and radiate heat, creating an 鈥渦rban heat island effect鈥. It puts cities at risk of overheating as they are than surrounding areas.

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Exploring ancient DNA for environmental insights

Exploring ancient DNA for environmental insights

Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) has revolutionised the study of ancient environments and the evolution of living things. It helps researchers unlock secrets found in sediments, ice, and water and has transformed our understanding of past biodiversity across different timescales, from decades to thousands of years ago. The Environment Institute is privileged to support the training of highly specialised experts in these cutting-edge techniques.

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