News from the Environment Institute

Lost Forests paper receives an abundance of media attention over the weekend

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Food Webs study featured in The New York Times

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Media Release: Food sector to benefit from innovation push   

The University of Adelaide has announced a new focus on helping grow the food sector with the appointment of its inaugural Director of Food Innovation.

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Professor Andrew Lowe is announced as Director of Food Innovation

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Guest Post: 150 Years Not a Lizard

As the only living evolutionary cousin to over 10,000 species of snakes and lizards (Squamata), the tuatara has played a pivotal role for understanding the evolution and development of vertebrates. Often tagged with the misleading and unhelpful phrase “living fossil”, or “basal lepidsoarus”, the tuatara has attracted an enormous body of research and is a keystone organism for many evolutionary studies of vertebrate anatomy, development, and function.

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ARC Future Fellow Dr Frank Reith is Gold on Radio

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Media Release: Lost forests may help balance global carbon budget

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New forest discovered which is 60% the landmass of Australia

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Can we tell fish environment from their earbones?

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Seminar: Measuring the benefits of ecosystem Management: better policy and better decisions

Dr Neville Crossman, from the School of Biological Sciences and for the Department of Ecology & Environmental Science Seminar Series, will be presenting examples of his work integrating science and expertise from the biophysical and socio-economic sciences to quantify and value the benefits from conservation and restoration of land and water resources.

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