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UPCOMING EVENTS: Nature Festival 2023
Are you ready for Nature Festival 2023? 🌿 The Environment Institute is excited to collaborate with leading experts and thought leaders at this year’s Nature Festival. Across five events we will explore South Australian nature – current trends, identify critical barriers, and local and state opportunities. Find out more about our events below. This series […]
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EVENT: Nature Festival – Memories we Carry of Nature, Food and Place: The Nature of Home
Growing, foraging, cooking, and sharing meals is an everyday active engagement with culture, community and place, and the process of making and sharing meals has been key to our sense of connection to culture. Cooking can also be an acknowledgement of the more-than-human life we share a place with. By shopping local, foraging or growing, […]
PODCAST: Exotic plants and animals: the illegal wildlife trade happening right under your nose
There is increasing interest in owning wild and exotic animals and the internet is able to serve up whatever your heart desires, even if importing these animals is illegal. In the latest Ecofuturist episode, Professor Andy Lowe speaks with Dr Phill Cassey and PhD student Charlotte Lassaline, both from the School of Biological Sciences as well as […]
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Microbial solutions to soil carbon sequestration
The potential of soil to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2), known as carbon sequestration, has been proposed as a compelling mitigation strategy to help address climate change. Agriculture is the primary supervisor and benefactor of global soil carbon stocks. It has an important role to play in developing practices that reduce the physical disturbance […]
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VIDEO: John Scanlon presenting ‘Environmental, Nature and Wildlife Crimes and the Role of International Law’ lecture
On July 17 this year, the Environment Institute and Adelaide Law School had the pleasure of hosting Mr John Scanlon AO for a public lecture on ‘Environmental, Nature and Wildlife Crimes and the Role of International Law’, the first in our Hope and Wonder Series. John is the Chief Executive Officer, The Elephant Protection Initiative […]
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VIDEO: Research Tuesdays Lecture Series – Reefs Awakened
Over the past two centuries, oyster reefs that were once active and effective underwater metropolises crucial to our marine ecosystems, have become almost abandoned in Australia with over 99% of these reefs completely degraded. However, thanks to our researchers, our coastlines are undergoing a revival. In a creative and innovative experiment, our ecological experts utilised […]
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The feral flying under the radar: why we need to rethink European honeybees
Australia’s national parks, botanic gardens, wild places and green spaces are swarming with an invasive pest that is largely flying under the radar. This is yet another form of livestock, escaped from captivity and left to roam free. Contrary to popular opinion, in Australia, feral colonies of the invasive European honeybee (Apis mellifera) are not […]
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‘Humanity’s signature’: study finds plastic pollution in the world’s lakes can be worse than in oceans
A world-first study has found concentrations of plastics in some lakes are higher than in the most contaminated parts of oceans, demonstrating the extent to which plastics have invaded Earth’s ecosystems. In a study recently released, researchers sampled 38 lakes and reservoirs around the world, including in Australia, the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. […]
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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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Here for Good
The University 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. The previous Campus Sustainability Plan (2016-2020) outlined the University’s first coordinated suite of strategies to reduce carbon […]
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