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

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2021

• • • 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

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

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

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

• • • 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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