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Consuming Landscapes?

Picture of a roadside stall in the Adelaide Hills

The rural hinterlands of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog’s metropolitan areas and regional cities, known as peri-urban regions, are well-known as sites of expanding habitat loss and a high incidence of threatened species.

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2024 SA Environment Awards Success

2024 SA Environment Awards EI Dr Isobelle Onley, Dr Katja Hogendoorn, Professor Sean Connell and Dr Dominic McAfee

Yesterday, on World Environment Day, we celebrated the 2024 SA Environment Award finalists and winners. The evening was a fantastic celebration of environmental champions across the state, emceed by the charismatic Tiahni Adamson.Ìý

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Tropical fish are invading ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn ocean water

Tropical fish are invading ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn ocean water

A ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn 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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog is a new home for citizen science

SciStarter ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog app in use

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

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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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) recently awarded Environment Institute’s Future Making Fellow, Dr Pham Thu Thuy, $471,200 for a project on ‘Defining the potential for mangrove-based agribusiness transformation in the coastal Mekong Delta’.

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Heat stress from ocean warming harms octopus vision

A newly hatched Octopus berrima

While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could impair their vision and impact the survivability of the species.

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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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A Periodic Table of Food for better health globally

Food for better health globally

×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide researchers are contributing to a global effort to quantify the makeup of the world’s food supply, enabling data-driven solutions to human and planetary health challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change and malnutrition.

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