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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Bear parts are being smuggled in Australia and New Zealand
In a paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology, researchers from the University of Adelaide in collaboration with the Monitor Conservation Research Society and the Wildlife Justice Commission examined the demand for bear parts and products in Australia and New Zealand. They found that between 2007 and 2018 enforcement agencies had made almost 800 seizures of bear […]
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Our members comment on the COP26 world leaders meeting
Four environmental experts from the Environment Institute discuss their view of the latest COP26 meeting held in Glascow recently. Professor Tom Wigley said “A recent media release about my paper in the journal Climatic Change, has some important new science in it, but it also has pedagogical value for those not familiar with the complexities in […]
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Climate change targets were flawed from the very beginning
According to new research from the University of Adelaide, the 2050 target to reduce climate change emissions is too little and too late. “The warming goals of Article 2 of the Paris Agreement are too little because the target only specifies what we should do with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and too late because we […]
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Research suggests reliance on modern irrigation technologies is a ‘zombie’ theory
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a ‘zombie idea’ – one that persists no matter how much evidence is thrown against it. In a paper in Environmental Research Letters, the international research team reviewed more than 200 supporting […]
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