News: Environment Institute
New research future on Kangaroo Island
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ has partnered with the state government to build a state-of-the-art research facility on Kangaroo Island.
A Periodic Table of Food for better health globally
³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers are contributing to a global effort to quantify the makeup of the world’s food supply, enabling data-driven solutions to human and planetary health challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change and malnutrition.
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Leading environmental scientist takes the reins
Plant, ecological and evolutionary geneticist, Professor Andrew Lowe will lead the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Environment Institute as its newly appointed Director.
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Trees are better for us than we realise
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Environment Institute and Green Adelaide will host an evening with pioneering environmentalist Jon Dee, highlighting the health-giving potential of trees.
Shining a light on dark web wildlife trade
A huge amount of wildlife is traded on the internet, with e-commerce marketplaces, private forums and messaging apps being the most popular means to sell and buy live animals, plants, fungi and their parts and products online.
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There’s something fishy about flake sold in South Australia
It is a popular takeaway choice at fish and chip shops, but new research has revealed threatened species of shark are being sold as flake at some outlets across South Australia.
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New inexpensive method to detect lime in soil
³ÉÈË´óƬ scientists have developed a new simple, inexpensive and fast method to detect and measure very low concentrations of agricultural lime in soils, which is generally a time consuming and difficult exercise.
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Echidna conservation science initiative a finalist in Eureka Awards
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Echidna Conservation Science Initiative (EchidnaCSI) is a finalist in the Australian Museum’s 2021 Eureka Prizes.
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Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2
Research from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ has found that some species of fish will have higher reproductive capacity because of larger sex organs, under the more acidic oceans of the future.
Droughts are threatening global wetlands: new study
³ÉÈË´óƬ scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally. Published in the journal , the scientists highlight the many physical and chemical changes occurring during droughts that lead to severe, and sometimes irreversible, drying of wetland soils.
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