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LATEST ARTICLES ( 663 )

• An Unexpected Journey (of Eels)

  

  The way that eels migrate along rivers and seas is mesmerising. There has been scientific agreement since the turn of the 20th Century that the Sargasso Sea is... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• New Job Posting: Research Fellow in Eco-Epidemiology & Human Ecology

  

  We are currently seeking a Research Fellow in Eco-epidemiology/Human Ecology to join our team at Flinders University.The successful candidate will develop... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Some Like It Hot

  

  Wildfires transform forests into mosaics of vegetation. What, where, and which plants thrive depends on when and how severely a fire affects different areas of ... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Better Codes of Practice for Control of Feral Animals

  

  From time to time I turn my research hand to issues of invasive species control, for example, from manipulating pathogens to control rabbits, to island... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Keeping Babies Alive Will Lower Population Growth

  

  We’ve just published a paper in PLOS ONE showing high infant mortality rates are contributing to an incessant rise of the global human population, which support... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Remapping the Superhighways Travelled by the First Australians Reveals a...

  

  Not exactly a conservation topic, I know, but it does provide insights into how the ancestors of Indigenous Australians adapted to and thrived in a new and... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• What We Know We Don’t Know About Animal Tolerances to High Temperatures

  

  Each organism has a limit of tolerance to cold and hot temperatures. So, the closer it lives to those limits, the higher the chances of experiencing thermal... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Tenure-Track Professorship in Conservation and Development

  

  The Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Geography Department, has an open position for a tenure-track... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Interrupted Flows in the Murray River Endanger Frogs

  

  Flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of temporary flood... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2022

  

  Following my annual tradition, I present the retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2022 as assessed by experts in Faculty Opinions (formerly... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Children Born Today Will See Literally Thousands of Animals Disappear in Their...

  

  Frida Lannerstrom/Unsplash, CC BYCorey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Giovanni Strona, University of HelsinkiClimate change is one of the main drivers... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Promoting Diversity in the Lab

  

  My definition of a ‘lab’ is simply a group of people who do the science in question — and people are a varied bunch, indeed. But I wager that most scientists... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXIV

  

  Welcome to the fourth set of 7 cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• What Does ‘collapse’ Mean, and Should We Continue Using the Term?

  

  The conservation, environment, and sustainability literature is rife with the term ‘collapse’, applied to concepts as diverse as species extinction to the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Should We Bring Back the Thylacine? We Asked 5 Experts

  

  Tasmanian Museum and Art GallerySigne Dean, The ConversationIn a newly announced partnership with Texas biotech company Colossal Biosciences, Australian... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Terror Management

  

  As is my tendency, I like to wade carefully into other disciplines from time to time to examine what components they can bring to the conservation table. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Never Underestimate the Importance of a Good Figure

  

  I seem to end up frequently explaining to students and colleagues that it’s a good idea to spend a good deal of time to make your scientific figures the most... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXXIII

  

  Welcome to the fourth set of 6 cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2021

  

  Now that Clarivate, Google, and Scopus have recently published their respective journal citation scores for 2021, I can now present — for the 14th year running... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2022 ENVIRONMENT

• Why a Shrinking Human Population is a Good Thing

  

  The other day I was asked to do an interview for a South Korean radio station about the declining-population “crisis”.Therein lies the rub — there is no crisis. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2022 ENVIRONMENT