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- Scimex – Remapping the superhighways travelled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent
- SBS Italiano – Cambiamenti climatici, le possibili catastrofiche conseguenze spiegate in un modello
- Finding Genius Podcast – Why are animal species rapidly going extinct? | Insight from a global ecologist (listen: 38:31 minutes)
- Le Monde – Disparition d’espèces animales : les coextinctions, une menace pour la biodiversité
- ABC Riverland – Rupert Mathwin speaking about frog models (starts at 2:37:20)
- ABC South East SA – Rupert Mathwin speaking about frog models (starts at 2:39:00)
- Canberra Times/Perth Now/Camden Haven Courier (& many other News Corpse rags) – River Murray flood creates breeding boom
- Popular Mechanics – Supercomputer says 27% of life on Earth will be dead by the end of this century (isn’t that a sensationalist headline?)
- Mirage News – Murray River interruptions put frogs at risk: study
- Scimex – Interrupted flows in the Murray River endanger frogs
- EurekAlert!/Phys.Org/EcoVoice/Tech Codex – New modelling shows how interrupted flows in Australia’s Murray River endanger frogs
- Impakter – Europe faces extreme January heatwave to welcome the New Year (mentioned in article)
- I Fucking Love Science – “Co-extinctions” could take out one-sixth of vertebrate species this century
- The Guardian – More than 1 in 10 species could be lost by end of century, study warns
- Irish Times – More than 10% of animals and plants could go extinct by 2100, says study
- Straits Times – Nature at risk of ‘cascading’ species extinction, study shows
- The Hill – Equilibrium/Sustainability — A quarter of biodiversity may be erased by 2100
- Forbes – Humanity Will Wipe Out More Than A Quarter Of Earth’s Biodiversity In The Next 100 Years
- Foreign Affairs NZ – Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse
- SwissInfo – La Tierra puede perder hasta un 10 % de la biodiversidad para 2050
- Yahoo! Actualités – Biodiversité : Une « cascade » d’extinctions menace les animaux et les plantes
- Xinhua – One quarter of biodiversity facing extinction by 2100: report
- Iidiseis – Ντόμινο εξαφάνισης του 27% των ειδών ζώων και φυτών – Νέα μελέτη για την κλιματική αλλαγή
- AFP – Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss
- ABC News – Computer modelling predicts climate change causing cascading animal ‘co-extinctions’
- EurekAlert! – New modelling shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will wipe out more than a quarter of world biodiversity
- Phys.org – Model shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will wipe out more than 25% of world biodiversity
- Cosmos – Scientists wary of government biodiversity pitch as new study projects over a quarter of species lost in next 80 years
- Mongabay – If you build it, the amphibians will come: Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk (mentioned in article)
- Daily Maverick – Fossil fuel multinationals can never pay Africa enough compensation – the price is life on Earth (mentioned in article)
- NZ Herald – What this marine heatwave means for our ocean species
- USA Today – ‘Fairytale science’: Rather than reviving an extinct species, stop killing them off
- ABC Adelaide – Corey Bradshaw interviewed about the role of advocacy for scientists (30.08.2022)
- The Guardian – De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger (interviewed for article)
- ABC South East SA – Recovery of southern bell frogs in South Australia (listen from 2:36:00)
- EcoVoice – Climate change predicts southerly shift of iconic whale species in New Zealand
- EurekAlert! – Climate change predicts southerly shift of great whale species in New Zealand
- YahooAlert! – Threat to $100 million whale tourism industry identified
- AOL UK – Threat to $100m tourism industry identified as whales disappear
- swissinfo.ch/Bieler Tagblatt/Liechtensteiner Volksblatt – Neuseelands Blau- und Pottwale verschwinden südwärts
- ZüriToday – Blau- und Pottwale wandern in den kühleren Süden aus
- Xinhua – Climate change in New Zealand to cause sperm, blue whales to seek higher latitudes
- 1 News – Climate change will drive blue, sperm whales in NZ southward
- Stuff/newsexplorer.net – Climate change predicts southerly shift of iconic whale species in New Zealand
- The Print/Phys.org – Climate change predicts a southward shift of New Zealand’s great whale species
- The Brilliant – A wake-up call from the future
- ABC Esperance – Interview about the Australian Shark-Incident Database (listen)
- ABC PM – Shark attack database could reveal “bad shark years” (listen)
- The Guardian – New dataset shows shark bites in Australia are increasing and researchers want to know why
- India Express – Explained: When shark bites are fatal, and which species kill the most
- EurekAlert!/Australian Geographic/Mirage/ScienMag/PhysOrg – Historical dataset could help scientists better understand sharks
- TBS eFM (South Korea) – Why a shrinking human population is a good thing (listen)
- Down to Earth India – Good while it lasted – III: Why this is a mass extinction
- Cosmos Magazine – Damage Control
- Radio Adelaide – De-extinction and the thylacine (listen)
- Newsroom – Don’t hold your breath for the Govt’s response on emissions targets
- Scientific American – Our environmental crisis requires political fixes, not technological ones (mentions ‘ghastly future‘ paper)
- Deutsche Welle – What to expect from the world’s sixth mass extinction
- The Islander – Flinders University to launch Kangaroo Island Passport to Recovery Program
- AdelaideNow – Counting costs of war on feral pests: $3 billion bill for weeding out damaging, invasive species
- Adelaide Advertiser – Study reveals fighting pests in South Australia has cost $3.29 billion
- News Monkey – Les inondations nous ont prouvé que personne n’est à l’abri du changement climatique, même les plus riches
- ABC – Naracoorte megafauna succumbed to both humans and climate change, research finds
- Forbes – Computer models suggest that Australia’s extinct megafauna was vulnerable to climate change and human land use
- 9 News – How Australia’s ancient giant animals met their end
- EurekAlert!/ScienMag/Phys.org/Foreign Affairs NZ/True Viral News – Extinct megafauna prone to ancient ‘hunger games’
- News.fr.24 – Une mégafaune éteinte sujette aux anciens « jeux de la faim »
- ChitChat Post España – Megafauna extinta expuesta a los antiguos “Juegos del Hambre”
- Germanic – Ausgestorbene Megafauna anfällig für uralte „Hungerspiele“
- Fluierul – Megafauna dispărută predispusă la vechile „jocuri ale foamei”
- The Lentil Intervention – Wrap-up 2021: Stories behind the science of climate change & humanity’s unsteady relationship with the natural world
- Radio Adelaide – Can koalas survive?
- ABC Radio Adelaide – Corey Bradshaw interviewed by Sonya Feldhoff (Afternoons) regarding government pledge to zero net emissions by 2050
- Herald Sun – Warning of Australia’s next great animal ‘extinction event’
- The Advertiser – SA the great state is ‘just right’
- The Advertiser – Green jobs to grow as sustainability is the standard
- The Advertiser – Bring biodiversity along for the ride
- ABC Radio National ‘The Science Show’ – Avoiding a ghastly future
- The Advertiser – Key role for nuke power
- The Advertiser – The environment and sustainability in the spotlight in Advertiser/Flinders University’s Fearless Conversations series
- NBC News – Australia’s koalas are in trouble. The question is how much
- Campus Morning Mail – Comparing research performance: there’s a better way than the H index
- news.com.au – Koala numbers plummet by 30 per cent in three years
- The Age/Sydney Morning Herald/WA Today – Fairer measure of research success (scroll down to third section of article)
- EurekAlert!/Phys.org/Scimex – Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience—new tool for fairer research metrics
- Times Higher Education – ‘Old farts’ get no favours from research’s new epsilon index (PDF)
- Adelaide Advertiser – Meet South Australia’s 50 most influential people in the environment sector
- Adelaide Advertiser – Flinders University professor reveals potential emissions toll if plan to burn Kangaroo Island plantations is realised, following seaport refusal
- ABC Adelaide 891 – Corey Bradshaw interviewed about the IPCC 6th Assessment Report
- 5AA Radio – Corey Bradshaw interviewed about the IPCC 6th Assessment Report
- 5MU Radio – How Climate Change Could Impact SA
- ABC Behind the News – Feral species cost
- Adelaide Advertiser – Heat, drought, fire storms: SA faces worse climate change
- Queensland Country Life – Fire ants would spread to Longreach, Bowen if not for ten year plan
- Queensland Country Life – Invasive species cost Queensland $3.7b
- RTR FM – Research assessment declares feral cats worst invasive species (interview; listen)
- ABC Alice Springs Drive – Invasive species costs to Australia (interview; listen)
- The Guardian – Ryegrass, fire ants and feral cats: major Australian study identifies costliest pests in past 60 years
- ABC Goulburn Murray Breakfast – Invasive species costs to Australia (interview; listen)
- ABC Country Hour (multiple states) – Invasive species costs to Australia (interview; listen from 28:47)
- ABC South Australia – Invasive species costs to Australia (interview; listen)
- Canberra Times (+ ~ 50 syndicated regional newspapers in Australia) – Invasive species cost nation $390 billion, top 10 named and shamed
- The West Australian – Annual ryegrass to be the most costly invasive species to WA
- FarmOnline National – Invasive species cost nation $390 billion, top 10 named and shamed
- The Saturday Paper – Invasive species cost $390 bn (Item #5)
- Weekly Times – Invasive species cost Australia almost $390 billion, as weeds, cats, rabbits top list
- earth.com – Invasive species have racked up $390 billion bill in Australia
- Phys.org/Eurasia Review – The price of pests: Australia’s $390 billion invasive species bill
- National Tribune – Australia’s $390 billion invasive species bill
- News.fr-24 – Les plantes et animaux nuisibles coûtent à l’Australie environ 25 milliards de dollars par an – et cela va empirer
- Xinhua.net – Invasive species costing Australian economy billions: study
- ABC News – Invasive species have cost Australia $390 billion in the past 60 years, study shows
- Scimex – EXPERT REACTION: Climate tipping points described in leaked IPCC Report
- Adelaide Advertiser – Counting the cost of climate change
- Adelaide Advertiser – Adelaide’s hot on fighting back against climate catastrophes
- National Indigenous Times – Ancient Indigenous population much larger than previously thought
- SBS NITV ‘Take it Blak’ podcast – Indigenous ‘super-highways’ interview
- Africa Geographic – Recreational hunting: 50 years of scientific research
- The Guardian – Are there too many people? All bets are off
- Science Magazine News – Ancient Australian ‘superhighways’ suggested by massive supercomputing study
- Wearable Technologies – Wearable technology might save us from shark bites
- Helsingin Sanomat – The sea of fire was quickly forgotten (Tulimeri unohtui nopeasti)
- SBS NITV Radio – ‘The “superhighways” travelled by First Australians thousands of years ago‘ — interview with Corey Bradshaw about the Indigenous ‘superhighways’ of Sahul (3 May 2021; listen from 20:05)
- Science Alert – The First People in Australia May Have Followed ‘Superhighways’ When Arriving There
- ABC Radio National Sunday Extra – Australia’s ancient Indigenous superhighways (listen)
- Scientific American – Nature can help us prepare for the next pandemic
- Scimex – Mapping the ‘superhighways’ travelled by the first Australians
- Cosmos – The First Australians grew to a population of millions
- ABC News – Researchers demystify the secrets of ancient Aboriginal migration across Australia
- SBS Français – Cartographie des « super-autoroutes » parcourues par les premiers Australiens
- Republica – Los primeros pobladores de Australia usaron “supercarreteras” hace más de 50.000 años
- Australian Geographic – ‘Super-highways’ First Australians used to cross ancient land, mapped
- WA Today – Australia’s Indigenous population may have been 3 million, study finds
- Daily Mail – Mapping Australia’s ancient ‘superhighways’: Scientists reveal the most common paths that up to 6.5 MILLION Indigenous people took while travelling across the continent 70,000 years ago
- Notimérica – Mapean las ‘superautopistas’ que usaban los primeros australianos
- SciTech Daily – First Human Inhabitants of Australia Followed “Superhighways” Across the Continent
- Phys.org – Mapping the ‘superhighways’ travelled by the first Australians
- Sydney Morning Herald/The Age/Brisbane Times – Researchers map ancient ‘superhighways’ used by first Australians
- CABAH – Mapping the ‘superhighways’ travelled by the first Australians
- Apu – Riikka Suomisen kolumni: Lapseni elää aikuisena kuumenneessa maailmassa – miten varustan hänet?
- SciTech Daily – Experts say humanity faces a grim and “ghastly future” – state of planet Is much worse than most people understand
- ABC Radio Sydney – interview on the costs of invasive species (listen from 2:57:48)
- Radio Adelaide – The cost of invasive plants and animals
- 2SER – How pesky pests cost $1.7 trillion worldwide
- ‘Examine’ (The Age) – One big thing
- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ‘Prevention Web’ – Attack of the alien invaders: pest plants and animals leave a frightening $1.7 trillion bill
- Cosmos – Attack of the alien invaders
- CABAH – Megafauna mysteries — plotting unpredictable and complex extinction cascades
- Sustainability Times – Size alone ‘did not cause ancient megafauna to go extinct’
- SciTech Daily – Size isn’t everything: megafauna extinction mystery
- Adelaide Advertiser – Sizing up extinction theory
- EurekAlert!/Scimex/ScienceDaily – Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything
- Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine – Canada and global economy paying high price for invasive species
- Vox – The hottest number in conservation is rooted more in politics than science
- Boston Herald – Shark deterrent sales climb on Cape Cod, as shark bite researcher says tech can save lives
- BBC Radio 4 Inside Science – Disobedient particles, noisy gorillas, sharks and fictional languages (listen from ~ 17:24)
- The Washington Post – There are no perfect defences against shark bites. But wearable tech might help, researchers say
- Boston Herald – Shark bites averted: Beachgoers wearing electronic tech could save lives
- SBS Ελληνικά – Ηλεκτρονικές συσκευές υπόσχονται να μειώσουν τις επιθέσεις καρχαριών
- The Wire – 60% of shark bites could be prevented with electronic deterrents, study finds (listen)
- The Lentil Intervention – Living on borrowed time (long-form interview)
- ABC Radio Hobart – Shark attack deaths could be reduced by 1000s says researcher
- The Guardian – Damage from invasive species ‘trebling every decade’
- Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle – 1 288 milliards : chiffrer les dégâts causés par les invasions biologiques pour enfin agir
- ABC – Shark bites could be reduced by 60 per cent with the right electronic deterrents, study finds
- Cosmos Magazine – New study reveals that invasive species have cost US$1.28 trillion globally over the past 50 years
- Bloomberg – There’s a Trillion Dollar Invasions Threat to the Global Economy
- EurekAlert! – US$1.28 trillion: The stark economic carnage of biological invasions threatening the world
- GEO – En 50 ans, les espèces envahissantes auraient coûté plus de 1000 milliards d’euros à l’humanité
- SwissInfo – Los daños de las especies invasoras cuestan casi lo mismo que el PIB español
- Siglo XXI – Los daños mundiales de especies invasoras superan el billón de euros desde 1970
- Manila Times – Electronic devices save sharks – researchers
- Nuevo Periódico – Los científicos demuestran que la tecnología electrónica puede salvar a las personas de las mordeduras de tiburones
- Wissenschaft.de – Wie viel uns invasive Arten kosten
- 20 Minutes – L’usage de répulsifs anti-requins peut réduire le nombre des attaques, selon une étude
- Forbes – Technology Might Save Us From Shark Bites
- Daily Mail – How personal electronic tags fitted to surfers’ ankles could save thousands of lives a year by preventing shark attacks
- I Fucking Love Science – Personal Electronic Shark Deterrents Could Reduce Attack Risk, Saving Sharks In The Process
- The Straits Times – Electronic shark deterrents can save lives: Study
- Agence France Presse – Electronic shark deterrents can save lives (of sharks too)
- Cosmos Magazine – How to avoid a shark attack
- The Mandarin – Scientists show technology can save Australians from shark bites
- EurekAlert! – Scientists show technology can save people from shark bites
- SciTech Daily/ScienMag – Scientists Show Electronic Technology Can Save People From Shark Bites
- Canberra Times (and a heap of syndicated papers) – Modelling backs use of shark deterrents
- The New Republic – We’re hurtling toward global suicide
- New York Times – Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment
- Research Storyteller – Does recreational hunting help conversation and local economies? We don’t know
- 5MU – Conservation paradox – how recreational hunting can save environments (listen)
- Europa Press – La caza puede ayudar a la conservación de las especies, según un estudio
- EurekAlert/Phys.org– Conservation paradox – the pros and cons of recreational hunting
- Mirage News – Recreational hunting’s conservation paradox
- Florida News Times – Advantages and disadvantages of recreational hunting
- New Scientist – Rescue plan for nature: How to fix the biodiversity crisis
- Siglo21 – El profesor de Ecología Global en la Universidad australiana de Flinders Corey Bradshaw reflexiona sobre la posible extinción del mundo tal y cómo lo entendemos (listen from 39:38)
- Daily Kos – Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it
- The Guardian – Human activity forces animals to move further to survive, study finds (Corey Bradshaw interviewed about this research)
- Radio Ecoshock – Stop the ghastly future (listen)
- National Geographic España – Los científicos vaticinan un futuro desolador para el planeta
- Yale Environment 360 – Avoiding a ‘ghastly future’: hard truths on the state of the planet
- CounterPunch – The rich, the poor, and climate change
- City Life – Complex life threatened
- La Izquierda Diario – Tenemos que hablar de la emergencia climática y ecológica
- Helsingin Sanomat – Ihmiskunta kiihdyttää kohti kärsimystä, eivätkä poliittiset järjestelmämme osaa suojella meitä, sanoo kylmäävän ympäristöraportin pääarkkitehti
- Politika News – Climate crisis: the international scientific community says it’s time to get real with people
- Canada’s National Observer – Planet faces ‘ghastly future of mass extinction,’ climate disruption, top scientists warn
- Sustainability Matters – Planet prognosis forecasts ‘ghastly’ future
- Scoop – Scientists warn humanity in denial of looming ‘collapse of civilization as we know it’
- Mongabay – Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn
- BBC World Service Newshour – Ghastly future (listen from ~ 38:00)
- The Guardian – Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption
- Population Matters – Humanity headed towards ‘ghastly future’: urgent warning from top scientists
- CNN – Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future’ for planet as leaders underestimate ecological threats
- Science Alert – Humanity Is Hurtling Into a ‘Ghastly Future’ It Doesn’t Comprehend, Scientists Warn
- CTV News – Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future’ for planet
- EcoWatch – Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming ‘Collapse of Civilization as We Know It’
- La Nación – “Panorama terrible”: expertos pronostican un futuro sombrío para la humanidad
- Clean Technica – Wake up! It’s time to recognize our enormous environmental problems
- Thomson Reuters Foundation – ‘Ecological Ponzi scheme’ threatens to bring down humanity, scientists warn
- EurekAlert! – Expert prognosis for the planet – we’re on track for a ghastly future
- The Irish Times – ‘A ghastly future’: Leading scientists offer bleak prediction for civilisation
- BusinessGreen – Is inaction on environmental crises leading humanity into a ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’?
- Phys.org – Expert prognosis for the planet—we’re on track for a ghastly future
- Rinnovabili.it – Perché biodiversità e clima sono le sfide più urgenti del nostro tempo
- News.com.au/Daily Telegraph – Frédérik Saltré and Corey Bradshaw mentioned in this story: UN warns that 2021 could be catastrophic due to COVID-19 fallout and famine
- ABC Central Victoria Drive – Corey Bradshaw interviewed live about extinctions
- Terrestrial Ecological Research Network – Centre Spotlight: Global Ecology Laboratory
- New Scientist – Did climate change drive early human species to extinction? Corey Bradshaw‘s take on a new paper published in One Earth
- ABC Adelaide – Seamus Doherty interviewed about the Great Southern BioBlitz (with Spence Denny & Troy Sincock — listen 49:00-54:40)
- Adelaide Advertiser – Time to spot and snap, for nature’s sake (Seamus Doherty)
- ABC New England Northwest – Antoine Champreux is interviewed about his fossil plant paper
- Adelaide Advertiser – Cane toads reportedly spotted in Truro in SA Mid North
- The Guardian – NSW Nationals play trump card in koala war but Berejiklian calls their bluff
- Otago Daily Times/Jerusalem Post/Swiss Info – Koalas throw Australia’s largest state into political chaos
- Huffington Post – ‘Koala war’: NSW in political chaos
- The Independent – Koala habitation causing political dispute in Australia as Nationals take on Liberals
- Reuters/Dhaka Tribune – ‘Koala war’ throws Australian state into political chaos
- Taipei Times – Row over koala bill strains New South Wales government
- Deccan Chronicle – A koala row might topple the government in Australia’s New South Wales
- Straits Times – Koala protection row threatens leader of Australia’s biggest state
- British Herald – Safety of koalas and political chaos engulf Australia’s largest state
- Al Jazeera/Bangkok Post/Gulf Times/International Business Times – Koala row threatens leader of Australia’s biggest state
- ABC 7.30 Report – Kangaroo Island koalas (featuring Kathryn Venning)
- Cosmos Magazine – More insights into the complexity of coral
- Science Daily – Computer modelling used to predict reef health
- CitizenSide – Les récifs coralliens virtuels deviennent un outil de diagnostic pour aider à gérer les récifs de la planète
- Phys.org – Researcher uses computer modelling to predict reef health
- EurekAlert! – UBCO researcher uses computer modelling to predict reef health
- Adelaide Advertiser/Herald Sun/NT News/The Mercury/Courier Mail/Daily Telegraph/Geelong Advertiser/Cairns Post – Threatened species habitat: 150 ha lost in Adelaide over 20 years (read PDF)
- The Guardian – Global heating will make it much harder for tropical plants to germinate, study finds
- The Nation – Fossil discovered in 1960s finally reveals its secrets
- Phys.org/Scimex/Brightsurf – Australian fossil reveals new plant species
- The Lead – Weeding out global threat to crops
- Nature Bats Last Radio Show – Extinction cascades
- Flinders Blog – Opportunity to fix catastrophes next in line
- SBS The Feed – Is the mass extinction we’re living through now any worse than an ice age or an asteroid collision?
- ABC Off Track – The banteng paradox
- New Scientist – Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there’s a new reason to love them
- Morning Bulletin/Queensland Times/Stanthorpe Border Post – ‘Smarter’ management needed to stop wave of extinctions
- National Tribune/Mirage News – Frogs on front line of climate change
- Earth.com – Conservation efforts to save amphibians are largely insufficient
- Diario.eco – Las poblaciones de anfibios están en declive a nivel mundial
- Noticias Más Verde – ¡Día de la Tierra 2020: ¡Salvemos a las ranas!
- Scienmag/Eurasia Review/Bioengineer.org – Earth Day alert to save our frogs
- EcoVoice – Earth Day calls to save amphibians on the brink
- Tekk.tv – Erdentag-Alarm zur Rettung unserer Frösche
- Scimex/EurekAlert!/Phys.org – Earth Day call to save our frogs
- Triple M (Newcastle) – Interview with Corey Bradshaw about precarious structure of supply chains from the pandemic
- Open Mind – The end of the UN Decade of Biodiversity: what has been achieved?
- Flinders In Touch – Broadcasting the 1.5 degrees message
- News.com.au (and every Murdoch-rag in Australia) – Coronavirus: The day our world changed
- Geo – Suuri syntyvyys on lapsille uhka (High birth rates are a threat to children)
- News.com.au – The big impact of a small number – what 2C of warming actually looks like
- New Scientist – Finding Sahul
- Popular Science – Heat and drought are causing feral camels to overrun communities in Australia
- RTR FM (Perth) – Kangaroo Island Fire Aftermath
- The Chicago Tribune – 1 billion dead animals? Experts are pushing back on eye-grabbing estimate of toll in Australia wildfires
- The Advertiser – Kangaroo Island’s threatened animal species in battle for survival after bushfires destroy their habitats
- New York Times – How many animals have died in Australia’s wildfires?
- Eu Rio – Quantos animais morreram nos incêndios florestais na Austrália?
- Le Journal du Dimanche – Incendies en Australie : comment a été calculé le chiffre de 500 millions d’animaux tués?
- Nouvelles du Monde – Mitaines et biberons Koala: sauver la faune australienne après les incendies
- Daily Mail – Alpine bog skinks, corroboree frogs and broad-headed snakes: The full list of endangered animals facing extinction – as bushfires wipe out a BILLION critters
- The Chicago Tribune – Australia wildfires prove devastating to koalas, kangaroos and other animals: ‘It’s a biological Armageddon rarely seen’
- The New York Times – Koala Mittens and Baby Bottles: Saving Australia’s Animals After Fires
- The Guardian – Kangaroo Island bushfires: grave fears for unique wildlife after estimated 25,000 koalas killed
- Radio-Canada – Feux en Australie
- The National (UAE) – Beyond the Headlines: How many children is too many?
- Numerama – Vivons-nous vraiment la sixième extinction de masse ?
- Fox News – Massive animals in Australia died from humans and climate change, study says
- Sci News – Study: Humans and climate change drove Australian megafauna to extinction
- Daily Telegraph – Scientists solve mystery of extinct prehistoric beasts
- News.com.au/The Advertiser/Herald Sun/New Zealand Herald – ‘A lot of suffering’: Grim 3000 yo warning about to come true
- Australia’s Science Channel – Both people and climate led to megafauna extinction
- Green Career/Water Career – Megafauna deaths detailed
- ABC Newcastle – Demise of Australia’s megafauna (listen)
- EurekAlert!/Scimex/Medianet/Phys.org – People, climate, and water supply all played a role in the extinction of Australia’s megafauna
- Flinders University Blog – Overpopulation prophecy unfolds
- Inverse – Are we in a “mass extinction” right now? Here’s the evidence
- The Advertiser – Professor Paul Ehrlich drops a bomb on coal-loving politicians, calling for action on climate change
- ABC – Are we in the sixth mass extinction on Earth? The signs are all there
- The Conversation/Gizmodo/From Press/Phys.org/Qrius/Business Daily/Modern Australian/Daily Bulletin/The Alayaran/News Pronto/The South African/Conservation Mag – What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now?
- Population Matters – High population density hurts child health, study finds
- Cosmos Magazine – Evolution holds clue to destruction by insect invaders
- The Guardian Nigeria – How to prevent African child deaths
- The National Tribune/Mirage News – Child deaths in Africa could be prevented
- Sahara Reporters/News Naira – Child mortality in Nigeria, other African nations, caused by poor basic amenities – study
- EurekAlert!/MedicalXpress/ScienceDaily/ScienMag/Insurance News Net – Child deaths in Africa could be prevented by family planning
- InterPress Service – Impact van overbevolking op kindersterfte zwaar onderschat
- Mamamia – Six actual, bona fide experts on the 7 best things you can do to fight climate change
- ABC News – Bird populations are collapsing, and it’s a sign of a bigger problem
- ABC – Do shark repellents work? Here’s what the science says
- ABC Sunshine Coast – Should our State Government provide rebates for shark repellent devices?
- The Messenger – Diving in to help ocean life
- Cosmos Magazine – Humans pushed cave bears towards extinction
- Yahoo! News – Are we heading toward extinction?
- ABC News – South Australia’s call for a wildlife cull (watch interview)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal – Environmental degradation study highlights importance of family planning
- InDaily – African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst
- The Science Times – 인류는 어떻게 호주로 건너갔나?
- Scimex/EurekAlert!/Phys.org/Science Codex – Environmental destruction linked to African population raises questions about unsustainable family sizes
- Brinkwire – People first arrived in Australia in large groups, computer modelling reveals
- Forskning.no – Hvordan kom de første menneskene seg til Australia?
- The Wire – From Sunda to Sahul: the unbelievable journey of the first Australians
- Scientias – Hoe kwamen de eerste bewoners van Australië op het continent aan?
- Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de – Studie: Erstmalige Besiedlung Australiens wurde von einer fortgeschrittenen Seefahrerkultur zielgerichtet geplant
- Atlas Obscura – How many people did it take to first occupy Australia?
- Historia y Arqueología – Dos estudios sugieren que hubo más cantidad de inmigrantes originales en el poblamento de Australia
- ARS Technica – How many people did it take to colonize Australia?
- EurekAlert!/Science Daily/Phys.org – Retracing ancient routes to Australia
- Xinhua – University collaboration reveals early humans journey to Australia
- Daily Mail UK – People first arrived in Australia in large groups 50,000 years ago, computer modelling reveals
- Radio Adelaide – Tracking Australia’s first arrivals
- Newsweek – How ancient humans reached the mega-continent of Sahul in one massive, well-planned wave of migration
- Daily Mail – People first arrived in Australia in large groups 50,000 years ago, computer modelling reveals
- ABC News AM – New details on the arrival of Indigenous Australians 50,000 years ago
- Sydney Morning Herald/Brisbane Times – Modelling shows ‘mind-blowing’ ancient Aboriginal journey to Australia
- SBS World News/9News – Aust first peoples migration was planned
- 7News – Australia’s first migrants’ arrival more than 50,000 years ago was extensively planned
- Canberra Times – First peoples migration ‘was planned’
- Scimex – First Aussies arrived in large groups using complex technologies
- The Australian – Aust first peoples migration was planned
- Mirage News – Earliest maritime routes mapped from north
- NBC News – World’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, U.N. report finds
- CABAH – Koala extinctions past, present, and future
- Echo Daily – Loss of habitat means koalas face uncertain future
- The National Tribune/Mirage News – Climate change leaves koalas facing an uncertain future
- The Conversation – Key challenges for the re-elected Coalition government: our experts respond
- ABC ‘The Signal’ – So you’re in an extinction wave
- Independent Australia – On Australia’s major environmental crises
- Australia’s Science Channel – Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations
- Radio Adelaide – Potential for native fish boost
- Water Career – Snag study shows sticks help
- Business Insider (Singapore)/Business Insider (France) – 15 signs we’re in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
- EurekAlert!/ScienceDaily/Phys.Org/7th Space/Eco Magazine/Fishing World – Australian Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations
- KBS World Radio Korea 24 – Environmental impact of high populations (listen)
- Truth Out – Children are demanding dramatic climate action. Listen to them
- Climate Code Red – New study shows IPCC is underselling climate change
- Phys.org/EurekAlert! – Study shows IPCC is underselling climate change
- Science Daily – IPCC is underselling climate change
- Daily Kos – IPCC reports too conservative with language as new modelling suggest warming’s underestimated
- Keep It Clever – Dingoes aren’t dogs but native Aussies
- Vet Practice Magazine – Dingoes are native — and need protecting
- Radio EcoShock – The rules of extinction
- Triple J – Research has found that dingoes are not related to other dogs …
- Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Radio – Why the dingo needs to be protected
- Stiripesurse – Descoperire a cercetătorilor australieni – Dingo este o specie de sine stătătoare, diferită de câini sau lupi
- Science Daily – Australian dingo is a unique Australian species in its own right
- tekk – Dingoes sollten in Australien eine eigenständige Art bleiben
- DevDiscourse – Australian researchers sound confident say dingo is not a dog, a new species
- BT – Australske forskere: En dingo er ikke en hund
- Art Daily – Australian researchers say dingo is not a dog, but own species
- ABC News – Dingoes are a ‘fair dinkum’ separate species needing better protection, researchers say
- ABC News – Dingo a ‘fair-dinkum’ separate species (watch)
- Lab Roots – Should Australia recognize the dingo as a distinct species?
- Katherine Times – Researchers want dingoes ‘protected’
- EurekAlert!; Phys.org; Scimex; 7th Space – Dingoes should remain a distinct species in Australia
- ABC Radio (Sydney, Alice Springs, Riverland SA, Adelaide) – Dingoes not related to other dogs and should be protected
- Le Courrier Australien; RTL; rfi.fr; Malay Mail; Yahoo! Singapore; Channel News Asia; Rappler; Daily Magazine; Business Standard India; GMA News; Deccan Herald; New Straits Times; South Coast Herald; Rising Sun Chatworth; Pretoria North Rekord; Ladysmith Gazette; Ridge Times; Standerton Advertiser; Berea Mail; Brakpan Herald; Randfontein Herald; Corridor Gazette; Capricorn Voice; MSN; Northglen News – Australian researchers say dingo is not a dog, but own species
- Fraser Coast Chronicle – Unique claim confirmed
- Radio Adelaide – Extinction science with Prof. Bradshaw
- ABC North and West SA (Breakfast with Paul Culliver) – Global insect declines
- ABC Adelaide 891 Radio (Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff) – David Attenborough and the World Economic Form (live interview)
- Tom Dispatch – “We Can’t Undo This”
- Wall Street International (Italia) – Cambiamenti climatici e coestinzioni
- The Advertiser – Work nears on huge Yorke Peninsula open-range sanctuary under Great Southern Ark plans
- Adelaide Now – Former Victor Harbour Mayor calls for long-nose fur seal cull to protect Granite Island penguins
- The Islander – KI feral cat program contributes to positive biodiversity outlook
- Thom Hartmann Program, Ring of Fire Radio – The extinction domino effect that could annihilate all life on Earth has already begun
- Climate News Network – Extinction toll may be far worse than thought
- National Geographic (España) – El cambio climático podría causar un efecto dominó en la extinción global
- Rinnovabili – Grandi estinzioni, sottostimato l’effetto domino del riscaldamento globale
- The University Network – Climate change could trigger extinction domino effect
- I Fucking Love Science – Runaway global warming could create an “extinction domino effect” wiping out all life on Earth
- Earth.com – Climate change could trigger a cascade of extinctions domino effect
- Daily Mail – Climate change could trigger an ‘extinction domino effect’ that would annihilate all life on Earth, chilling report warns
- Blue Planet Heart – I cambiamenti climatici aumentano l’effetto domino che causa l’estinzione delle specie
- Express – END OF WORLD: Climate change could trigger DEATH of ALL species in ‘domino effect’
- V3 – Global warming increases risk of ‘extinction domino effect’, warns EU study
- Science Daily/Eureka Alert/Phys.org – Global warming increases the risk of an extinction domino effect
- InDaily – Optimistic SA environmental report card issued
- News.com.au – Australian government inquiry grapples with growing extinction crisis
- Daily Courier – Talking about extinction
- BC Local News/Kelowna Capital News/Penticton Western News – Expert to speak on extinction of species and humanity’s peril in Kelowna
- UBC Okanagan News – UBC hosts global-change expert Corey Bradshaw
- The New Daily – Thousands of ways to kill the world: Global warming is the worst-case scenario
- SBS News – Climate change may cause mass extinctions, new report shows
- Tech2 – Extreme environmental changes could trigger the annihilation of all life on earth: study – WorldStage
- dpa International – Study: Climate change losses could trigger ‘extinction domino effect’
- ABC AM – Loss of animal or plant species to climate change could cause global ‘extinction domino effect’
- Yahoo! – Climate change risks extinction effect
- CABAH – Creating virtual Earths to investigate climate change and co-extinction (watch)
- Hakai Magazine – Many shark repellents don’t work
- Adelaide Now – Flinders University Professor explains climate change’s effect on SA if we limit warming to 1.5 C
- Adelaide Advertiser – Why SA’s crops and fish stocks face ruin
- Australian Science Channel – EU renewable-energy policy chips away at forestry protections
- ABC Radio National – The scientist’s guide to a successful career in academia (listen)
- Australia’s Science Channel – How to get ahead in science
- Flinders University – Sustainability at Flinders (video)
- BBC: More or Less: Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
- ALERT – Scientists critique transport strategy of Asian Infrastructure Development Bank
- NT News – ‘It’s simply not good enough … to be leaving the next generation with a crisis like this’
- Stock Journal – A jump ahead on rabbit control
- MD Magazine – How population and global resources are reaching a boiling point
- News.com.au – Endangered species could suffer silent extinction in Environment Department reshuffle
- InDaily – High time for a ‘smart’ offshore energy plan for SA
- Plantae – Interview with Professor Corey Bradshaw, The Effective Scientist
- ABC Late Afternoons – interview with Sarah Tomlinson about our work with the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
- InDaily – The last rhino: why populations can’t be saved by a single breeding pair
- NZ Herald – When survival odds get too big
- Conservation Careers – Standing on the shoulders of giants – a chat with Corey Bradshaw from ConservationBytes
- Radio Adelaide – Dingoes (listen, forward to 48:40)
- ABC – Dingo fence dismantlement could help farmers and the environment, ecologist claims
- La Croix – Cent études sur la nature qu’il faut avoir lues dans sa vie
- ABC Afternoons – Insect declines (listen)
- Global Journalist – The Overpopulation Debate (watch)
- Triple J Hack (ABC) – Big game hunting (listen)
- 2SER (radio) – The ongoing biological annihilation
- Nezavisimaya Gazeta – Russian population in 2050 will be reduced by 20 million (Население РФ к 2050 году сократится на 20 миллионов)
- Science Magazine News at a Glance – Construction begins on world’s largest predator-free zone
- InDaily – Fleurieu wetlands face high extinction risk
- Green Career – Small swamps play big role
- Australasian Science – Fertilisers make plants weaker
- ALERT – Australian wins egg-frying contest for Trump
- Radio New Zealand (Rural News) – Fertilisers & crop health (listen; my bit starts at 01:46)
- Adelaide Advertiser/Courier Mail/Daily Telegraph/Herald Sun/News.com.au – Fertilisers found to reduce plants’ resistance to fungal diseases
- Flinders University – Earth crusader’s fight for biodiversity
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