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  2. Thumbnail for Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    Six tonnes of plastic removed from remote island's beaches

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/879-six-tonnes-of-plastic-removed-from-remote-islands-beaches
    3 Jul 2019: Dr Jennifer Lavers' research revealed in 2017 that the tiny uninhabited island was polluted with the highest density of plastic debris ever recorded. Part of the UK’s Pitcairn Islands territory, the island is so remote that it’s usually visited
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    Things adrift in the ocean advance to Biennale

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/things-adrift-in-the-ocean-advance-to-biennale
    13 Sep 2019: The Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-based Adrift Lab has been announced as a participating artist in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, to be held from March to June 2020. Adrift Lab is a dedicated group of researchers from across the
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    Tails you lose for lizards

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/tails-you-lose-for-lizards
    19 Jul 2019: The natural ability of lizards to drop and then regrow their tails is a neat evolutionary trick that allows them to avoid predators and remain alive. But new research from the University of Tasmania - published recently in Biology Letters - reveals
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    Why plastic plants are blooming on campus

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/898-why-plastic-plants-are-blooming-on-campus
    31 Jul 2019: Banner image: Growing Seed Point 1, by Dr Linda Erceg. Big, twisting leafy vines made from irrigation pipe and cable ties are the newest addition to a growing art installation project at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk campus. Artist and
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    Researchers to test potential of drug in fight against MND

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/922-researchers-to-test-potential-of-drug-in-fight-against-mnd
    15 Sep 2019: There could be new hope in the fight against motor neurone disease (MND). The potential of a drug to assist in protecting nerve cells from degeneration which occurs in motor neuron disease, will begin pre-clinical testing after Tasmanian researchers
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    E-cigarettes aren't the healthy option

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/823-e-cigarettes-arent-the-healthy-option
    15 Feb 2019: If you think using an electronic smoking device is safer than cigarettes, think again. Researchers at the University of Tasmania have shown that the latest device on the international market, heat-not-burn (HNB) cigarettes, may be as dangerous to
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    Surveys leave lobsters shaking in their shells

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/896-surveys-leave-lobsters-shaking-in-their-shells
    25 Jul 2019: Banner image: Air gun test, Storm Bay, Tasmania. Image by Rob McCauley. A new study of the impact on marine life of seismic air guns, used in geological surveys of the seafloor, has found that the sensory organs and righting reflexes of rock lobster
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    Geological secrets of Antarctic interior revealed

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/897-geological-secrets-of-antarctic-interior-revealed
    26 Jul 2019: Banner image: Rock outcrop visited in Wilkes Land. Image by Tobias Stal. Bedrock buried under kilometres of ice in a remote part of Antarctica has revealed some of its secrets for the first time in a new study by scientists from IMAS and Macquarie
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    $50m grant to keep Tasmania at forefront of Antarctic research

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/853-50m-grant-to-keep-tasmania-at-forefront-of-antarctic-research
    12 Apr 2019: The University is working with core partners the Australian Antarctic Division, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology to create the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP), which will be funded through the Antarctic Science Collaboration
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    Little study has big insights

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/953-little-study-has-big-insights
    17 Oct 2019: A study of Little Penguins in south-eastern Tasmania has shed light on how the marine predators adapt to subtle changes in environmental conditions to find food. To record their foraging behaviour, Little Penguins from three colonies around Storm

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