Stephen Howes Presentation
Read more at The Environment Institute “Download a podcast of Stephen Howes presenting ‘Mitigating Climate Change – How and why economists have changed their minds’ for the Environment Institute. The...
View ArticleWorld Environment Day
Read more at The Environment Institute “Sunday June 5 is World Environment Day, this year’s theme is ‘Forests: Nature At Your Service’. Read on to find out how researchers at The Environment Institute...
View ArticleImaging cereals for increased crop yields
Read more at The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies “University of Adelaide computer scientists are developing image-based technology which promises a major boost to the breeding of improved...
View ArticleClearing up the climate debate
Read more at BraveNewClimate “The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and...
View ArticleCarbon tax in Australia in 2011
Read more at BraveNewClimate “Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A...
View ArticleThe Australian Government’s Climate Change Plan – Securing a Clean Energy Future
Read more at The Environment Institute “The Australian Government presented, on July 10, its plan on the Carbon Price for the 2012 - 2015 period and beyond. The plan, Clean Energy Future, is...
View ArticleLeadership in a Changing Climate – a free public forum on leadership and...
Read more at The Environment Institute “We are pleased to announce that Minister Penny Wong and Professor Mike Young – along with a panel of three more South Australian leaders – are participating in...
View ArticleThe Swiss army nuclear knife
Read more at BraveNewClimate “Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His...
View ArticleHow climate change may degrade marine ecosystems
Read more at The Environment Institute “With research into the effects of climate change rapidly advancing it is appropriate to reflect on both the achievements and future directions of this research....
View ArticleDebate @ The Waite, 3rd November 2011
Read more at The Waite Research Institute “Come and see two teams debate the topic: “Agriculture should be exempt from greenhouse gas reduction schemes” Ensuring that Australia’s agricultural...
View ArticleArabana action: adapting Indigenous life to climate change
There’s no shortage of scientific information available on the potential environmental impacts of climate change – globally, nationally and even regionally. A great deal of research, some of it...
View ArticleNew app allows eco worriers to assist science’s eco warriors
The dire predictions regarding the global impacts of climate change are troubling for all For particularly concerned citizens, however, that inner tension can be exacerbated by a lack of clear choices...
View ArticleTechnology grows food security as climate change looms
If you thought farming cereal crops was already a challenging task, take a moment to consider the mid-range forecast – increased incidence of drought, rising salinity and a growing population....
View ArticleHow will we feed our exploding population?
A perfect storm is gathering in the area of global food security. Our population, and therefore our demand for food, is soaring. Finite supplies of arable land are dwindling, with climate change...
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