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Researchers respond to the IPCC's report that human activity is undeniably heating the planet.

The world’s leading climate scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC, have warned that the prospect of limiting global warming to 1.5C will be out of reach within 12 years at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Detecting impact of sea level rise in new technique

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide scientists have developed a new simple, inexpensive and fast method to analyse sulfur isotopes, which can be used to help investigate chemical changes in environments such as oceans, and freshwater rivers and lakes.

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EVENT: Exploring echidnas, poop and insects on Kangaroo Island

Join our researchers in echidna and insect biology, to learn all about the secret lives of these remarkable species on Kangaroo Island.

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Averting disaster with UNHaRMED software

It’s an unsettling prognosis. Driven by climate change, population growth and economic development, natural hazards —such as the recent bushfires in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and the US, heatwaves in Europe, and floods in Japan—will in coming years become an even bigger threat.

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The race to stop illegal trading of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n lizards

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n reptiles face serious conservation threats from illegal poaching fuelled by international demand and the exotic pet trade.

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Our experts refute River Murray estuary claims

A team of scientists, led by the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s Associate Professor John Tibby, has confirmed that the lower River Murray was not an estuary in the mid-Holocene period (more than 7000 years ago) – reinforcing scientific evidence likely to influence important river management policy decisions.

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Blue is the new green

In the search for potential natural allies to help combat climate change, marine coastal vegetation sits near the top of the list.

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