News: Environment Institute
Recycling marine plastics to save wildlife
Protecting turtles from marine debris strewn across the Northern Territory coastline and recycling plastic pollution is the focus of a new ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide-led project.
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Here for Good
The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog is committed to a sustainable future, and has ambitions to lead and deliver positive and sustainable change for good. Solving known and evolving problems of today, and preparing our emerging leaders for tomorrow, is our strength.
Rising to the Challenge
, Interim Director of the Environment Institute, gives a brief snapshot of the vital environmental research – and actions – underway at our ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowships 2023 success
Congratulations to on receiving an ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship for a project 'Combatting wildlife crime and preventing environmental harm'.
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Shining a light on dark web wildlife trade
A huge amount of wildlife is traded on the internet, with e-commerce marketplaces, private forums and messaging apps being the most popular means to sell and buy live animals, plants, fungi and their parts and products online.
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Future Making Fellowships applications open
Applications are now being accepted for the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide'sÌýFuture Making Fellowships Scheme.
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Dieback of Eucalyptus trees: end of the line or holding on for a new beginning?
What will happen to an isolated population of the red stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha) as droughts intensify under climate change? It’s not looking good but there is hope says a research team from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog, ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide, and the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.
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Putting the ‘history’ in ‘prehistoric’: confirming the origin of the first collection of megafauna from the Naracoorte Caves
The World Heritage listed Naracoorte Caves in southeast South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog contain some of the world’s most valuable fossil deposits from the Quaternary period (2.5 million years ago to the present). The caves are particularly famous for their ‘megafauna’ fossils. These large animals roamed the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn continent for most of the Quaternary, before the majority became extinct around 45 thousand years ago.
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