News: environment institute

Regenerating ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ screening and Dynamic Statement release event

Last Wednesday evening the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s and Environment Institute partnered to host the screening ofÌý, as part of Sustainability Week 2022.

[Read more about Regenerating ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ screening and Dynamic Statement release event]

Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ 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.

[Read more about Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back]

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'.

[Read more about Green Industries SAÌýCircular Economy Student Award 2022]

Eureka Prize 2022 Finalists

Ìýis a finalist in the Innovations in Citizen Science category. Fungimap Inc is highlighting the irreplaceable role of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s fungi in our ecosystems and advocating for conservation and investment.

[Read more about Eureka Prize 2022 Finalists]

Ocean warming threatens richest marine biodiversity

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide 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.

[Read more about Ocean warming threatens richest marine biodiversity]

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.

[Read more about Understanding global trade networks could help us spread the load of environmental contamination]

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.

[Read more about Viticulturists one step closer to advanced computer vision]

RSS News Feed
Facebook and twitter

Newsletter & social media

Join us for a sensational mix of news, events and research at the Environment Institute. Find out aboutÌýnew initiatives andÌýshare with your friends what's happening.

ÌýÌýÌý