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Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back
Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early –Ìýand largely underwater –Ìýthe destruction of these reefs was all but forgotten.
EVENT: Rewilding the oceans: combining marine biology & technology, public & policy
The Environment Institute is pleased to present an engaging panel discussion on rewilding our oceans for the ³ÉÈË´óƬ's EcoversityÌý2022 Sustainability Week.
SEMINAR: Network Governance for Urban Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ's Stretton Institute,ÌýÌý, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources and the Environment Institute are delighted to jointly host international guest speaker
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Fishing for Data on Plastics
The problem of plastics in our oceans and their potential impact on people, plants, animals and entire ecosystems was front and centre at the recent .
Green Industries SAÌýCircular Economy Student Award 2022
Congratulations to Liancheng Li, PhD candidate in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, who was the recipient of the Green Industries SA'sÌýÌý for 'Masters-PhD'.
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Eureka Prize 2022 Finalists
Ìýis a finalist in the Innovations in Citizen Science category. Fungimap Inc is highlighting the irreplaceable role of Australia's fungi in our ecosystems and advocating for conservation and investment.
Ocean warming threatens richest marine biodiversity
An international team of scientists led by researchers from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ has revealed that rates of future warming threaten marine life in more than 70 per cent of the most biodiverse-rich areas of Earth’s oceans.
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Understanding global trade networks could help us spread the load of environmental contamination
Rice travels a long way to get to your dinner plate. It may have been harvested from a paddy field in Vietnam, processed and packaged in a factory in Bangladesh, and transported via freight ship to eventually land in your local supermarket.
Viticulturists one step closer to advanced computer vision
Vineyard owners can’t have their eyes everywhere, all the time. That’s why ground-based vision systems are becoming tricks of the trade.
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Launch of new research program - 'Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future'
TheÌýARC Special Research Initiative in Excellence in Antarctic Science Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future is a leading international research program which will deliver interdisciplinary research to forecast environmental change across the Antarctic region, to deployÌýeffective environmental stewardship strategies in the face of this change, and to secure Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
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