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Tag: climate change

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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  • Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse 19 Dec 2022
  • Warming oceans might force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters 19 Aug 2022

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  • Losing the natural world comes with major risks for your super fund and bank 2 Feb 2023
    Your super is likely exposed to major nature-based risks. How big a risk? We don’t know - because to date, banks and super funds haven’t looked into it. But that’s likely to change
  • Win-win: how solar farms can double as havens for our wildlife 2 Feb 2023
    Solar panels can provide places for animals to rest, shelter and breed – potentially benefitting both the land and farmers.
  • Slippery slopes: why the Auckland storm caused so many landslides – and what can be done about it 2 Feb 2023
    Building too close to cliffs and slopes, weak soils, lack of vegetation and increased rainfall all played a part in the massive storm damage to Auckland. The city needs to change the way it uses land.
  • Hybrid future? Interbreeding can make heat-averse species more resilient to climate change 1 Feb 2023
    When species naturally hybridise, the influx of genes can reduce their risk of extinction as climate change shrinks their habitats.

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