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2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | PRESS RELEASES

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2023

• 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)

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2022

• 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

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2021

• 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

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2020

• 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

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2019

• 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

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2018

• 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

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2017

• 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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FLINDERS UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASES

• Modelling shows interrupted river flows endanger frogs (20/01/2023)
• Extinction cascades may decimate world biodiversity by 2050 (19/12/2022)
• New tests on shark deterrents (20/11/2022)
• Historical dataset could help scientists better understand sharks (07/07/2022)
• Global award for high performance computing research (28/01/2022)
• Flinders leads state in industry project funding (23/12/2021)
• Extinct megafauna prone to ‘hunger games’ (17/12/2021)
• Banishing bias in research metrics (13/09/2021)
• Australia’s $390 billion invasive species bill (30/07/2021)
• Mapping ‘superhighways’ travelled by first Australians (30/04/2021)
• Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything (14/04/2021)

• Pests wreak economic carnage of US$1.28 trillion (05/04/2021)

• Technology can save Australians from shark bites (01/04/2021)
• Recreational hunting’s conservation paradox (20/02/2021)
• Grim prognosis – we’re on track for a ghastly future (13/01/2021)
• Australian fossil reveals new plant species (18/06/2020)
• Global warming will lift agriculture weed threat (03/06/2020)
• Frogs on front line of climate change (22/04/2020)
• People and climate led to Aus megafauna extinction (27/11/2019)
• Child deaths in Africa could be prevented (04/10/2019)
• Environmental destruction in Africa raises questions (28/06/2019)
• Earliest maritime routes mapped from the north (18/06/2019)
• Koalas hang by a thread as forests shrink (14/06/2019)
• Dingoes a native species – so need protecting (08/03/2019)
• Optimistic SA environmental report card issued (21/11/2018)
• Losing species to climate change causes global ‘extinction domino effect’ (14/11/2018)
• Timber! EU move ignites forest debate (28/08/2018)
• Virus combo gets jump on pesky feral rabbits (25/06/2018)
• Hunting a ‘great’ shark deterrent (24/05/2018)
• High time for ‘smart’ offshore energy plan (27/04/2018)
• How to get ahead in science (09/04/2018)
• Debate on Top 100 ecology articles (20/11/2017)
• Ecologist heads for top biology award (12/10/2017)
• Major conservation program activates ecology lab at Flinders (22/06/2017)
• Fertilisers can make plants weaker, sicker (25/01/2017)

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