research Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research 12 Mar 202412 Mar 2024 Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the…
research Quantifying how climate change degrades children’s health 23 Feb 202426 Feb 2024 Increased numbers of preterm births, higher incidence of respiratory disease and death, and more children in hospitals are some of the stark health outcomes the world is facing from the…
concepts… New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive 21 Feb 2024 Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and…
research People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea 21 Dec 202321 Dec 2023 For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square…
research… Intricate dance of nature — predicting extinction risks in terrestrial ecosystems 30 Jun 2023 Have you ever watched a nature documentary and marvelled at the intricate dance of life unfolding on screen? From the smallest insect to the largest predator, every creature plays a…
research Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse 19 Dec 202218 Dec 2022 Frida Lannerstrom/Unsplash, CC BY Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Giovanni Strona, University of Helsinki Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know…
research Warming oceans might force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters 19 Aug 202219 Aug 2022 Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s oceans are absorbing more than 90% of the excess heat and energy…
research Extinct megafauna prone to ancient hunger games 14 Dec 202114 Dec 2021 I'm very chuffed today to signal the publication of what I think is one of the most important contributions to the persistent conundrum surrounding the downfall of Australia's megafauna many…
research Animating models of ecological change 6 Dec 2021 Flinders University Global Ecology postdoc, Dr Farzin Shabani, recently created this astonishing video not only about the results of his models predicting vegetation change in northern Australia as a function…
concepts What was the Medieval warm period? 23 Apr 2021 As this reconstructed village shows, Vikings made it as far as Newfoundland during the Medieval warm period. Wikimedia/Dylan Kereluk, CC BY-SA Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University and Corey J. A. Bradshaw,…
concepts Climate explained: humans have dealt with plenty of climate variability 24 Sep 2020 © Professor John Long, Flinders University, Author provided (originally published on The Conversation) How much climate variability have humans dealt with since we evolved and since we started settling (Neolithic…
research Climate change and humans together pushed Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction 25 Nov 201926 Nov 2019 Over the last 60,000 years, many of the world’s largest species disappeared forever. Some of the largest that we generally call ‘megafauna’ were first lost in Sahul — the super-continent…
policy Fires, floods and “inner-city raving lunatics” 16 Nov 2019 It’s a Monday night and I am frantically checking with friends from back home on the Eyre Peninsula if they and their homes are safe from the fire. I am scrolling social…
research First Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologies 18 Jun 2019 One of the most ancient peopling events of the great diaspora of anatomically modern humans out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago — human arrival in the great continent…
cartoons Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss LII 2 Jan 2019 [Reblogged from ConservationBytes.com] The first set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019 to usher in the New Year. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. —…
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