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Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race

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Shellfish Reefs project wins Eureka Prize

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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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The world’s leading aquatic scientific societies with 80,000+ members urgently call for cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions

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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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Could chocolate be the answer to saving southern Australia's most endangered wattle?

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Marine food webs struggle as climate change increases sea temperatures

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Trained dogs could possibly detect COVID-19 in near future

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Environment Institute receives two out of four Future Fellowships awarded to the University of Adelaide

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Winner of PlanetFix, our high school student competition, announced in The Advertiser

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