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Monthly Archives: July 2023

PODCAST: Nature deprivation: the real consequences

July’s EcoFuturists podcast explores what are the real public health impacts of declines in the natural environments and green spaces. The microbiome… what is it and why is it so important? Microbes are all around us wherever we go and come in many forms. Microbiome is the ecosystem of microbes that are on and in […]

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WORKSHOP: Communicating science through the arts for Adelaide Festival 2024

The Environment Institute is excited to be collaborating with the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Dynamic State to communicate science through the arts for Adelaide Festival 2024. The Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra have embarked on two ambitious projects centered around climate change and community engagement.  The first project, Create4Adelaide, aims to involve […]

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EVENT: Research Tuesdays – Reefs Awakened

Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023, 5:30 pm start.  For in-person, the doors will open at 5.15 pm Location: Braggs Lecture Theatre, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide Cost: Free More information:  Register in-person or Register for the webinar Oyster reefs across Australia—once bustling underwater metropolises and vital pillars of our marine ecosystems—are now ghost towns. In the past 200 years since colonisation, […]

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The Murray-Darling Basin shows why the ‘social cost of water’ concept won’t work

Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries. Fights over water can be expected to intensify as the world warms, evaporation increases and rainfall becomes less predictable. So we’ll need to work even harder to resolve disputes and share this precious […]

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