News: Climate
As climate change worsens Adelaide will become a 50 degree city
Climate change means Adelaide is already on a path towards unavoidable destruction. But if we act now, we can avoid the worst, says environmental expert Robert Hill.
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Publication from the Heat and Habitat in Cities Symposium features Professor Veronica Soebarto
We are delighted that Environment Institute member Professor Veronica Soebarto was Symposium Chair and featured on page 74. Congratulations Veronica.
Unique Komodo dragons under threat by climate change
A new international study, led by the University of Adelaide and Deakin University, has found that the impact of both global warming and sea-level rise threatens the extinction of Komodo dragons, which already have restricted habitats, and this must be better incorporated into conservation strategies.
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Looking to the past to maintain future biodiversity
”Reference periods in Earth’s history serve as natural laboratories for understanding biodiversity responses to climate change and improving strategies for conservation under ongoing and future climate change,” says lead author Associate Professor Damien Fordham, at the Environment Institute and the University of Adelaide's Global Change Ecology & Conservation Lab.
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