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Monthly Archives: April 2019
China and the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Free Seminar, Tuesday, 30 April
As the world’s second largest economy, China is among the 12 mega-biodiverse countries in the world. Rapid urbanization and industrialization have brought severe threats to and increased pressure on the country’s biodiversity and ecosystem. Prof QIN Tianbao, China’s most prominent international environmental lawyer, will give a presentation regarding China’s role in global efforts to protect […]
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Meeting Australia’s Climate Change Targets: Price, Opportunity and Pathways: A Pre-Election Forum
As Australians head to the polls in a few weeks, University of Adelaide experts are coming together in a free public forum, to provide insights on the feasibility, price, technology and pathways to achieve our emissions targets for 2050. ‘Meeting Australia’s Climate Change Targets: Price, Opportunity and Pathways’ is a joint initiative of the Environment […]
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‘Bandicoot Bungalows’ providing much needed accommodation in the Mt Lofty Ranges
University of Adelaide conservation biologist Dr. Jasmin Packer is working to find ways to conserve and promote bandicoot populations in the Mt Lofty Ranges. Dr. Packer was featured recently on the ABC’s Gardening Australia, to demonstrate some of the novel conservation work she’s been doing, building ‘Bandicoot Bungalows’ to provide better connectivity between habitat fragments. […]
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Adelaide researchers record deepest ever sea snake dive
Sea snakes, best known from shallow tropical waters, have been recorded swimming at 250 metres in the deep-sea ‘twilight zone’, smashing the previous diving record of 133 metres held by sea snakes. Footage of a sea snake swimming at 245 metres deep, and another sea snake at 239 metres has been provided to University of […]
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Could urban biodiversity help combat chronic disease?
Replanting urban environments with native flora could be a cost effective way to improve public health because it will help ‘rewild’ the environmental and human microbiota, University of Adelaide researchers say. In a new paper, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers say that humans – thought of as ‘holobionts’, a symbiosis of host and microorganisms […]
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New Environment Institute member Professor Volker Hessel scoops $16 million EU grant for SCOPE project
Did you catch this fantastic news for Professor Volker Hessel? Professor Hessel, who is also our newest Environment Institute member, along with a team of international researchers, has won a $16M EU grant to investigate the use of new kinds of plasma energy to revolutionize fertilizer production. Congratulations!
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