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    $100m innovation to secure sustainable forestry future

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/$100m-innovation-to-secure-sustainable-forestry-future
    12 Mar 2024: The future of sustainable forestry received a significant boost today with the official launch of the Albanese Government’s $100 million Australian Forest and Wood Innovations (AFWI) program. AFWI is a collaboration between the Albanese Government
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    Australian islands home to 414 million pieces of plastic pollution

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/860-australian-islands-home-to-414-million-pieces-of-plastic-pollution
    18 May 2019: Banner image: Dr Jennifer Lavers  and Silke Stuckenbrock with plastic debris on Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Silke Stuckenbrock. A survey of plastic pollution on Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands has revealed the territory’s beaches
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    Study reveals attitudes to Hobart's bushfire preparation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1183-study-reveals-attitudes-to-hobarts-bushfire-preparation
    24 Nov 2021: NEARLY one in five people living near bushland in Hobart plan to remain in their homes even under life-threatening bushfire conditions, while four in five expect to experience a serious bushfire during their lifetime, according to data collected
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    Writing from the edge of catastrophe: two new books clarify what’s at …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/writing-from-the-edge-of-catastrophe-two-new-books-clarify-whats-at-stake-if-we-fail-to-mitigate-climate-change
    20 Jan 2023: The Australian Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 were unspeakably grim. Twenty-four million hectares were burnt, 33 people died, and over a billion animals perished. In Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe, Margi Prideaux tells us that
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    Scientists, teachers, warriors

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/scientists-teachers-warriors
    8 May 2023: Over the course of a long and dynamic academic career, now in its sixth decade, geographer and conservation ecologist Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick has focused increasingly on changes to the natural world from human – usually economic –
  7. Thumbnail for IPCC report calls for ambitious and immediate global action

    IPCC report calls for ambitious and immediate global action

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1212-ipcc-report-calls-for-ambitious-and-immediate-global-action
    1 Mar 2022: Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit,
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    Tagging tabbies for wildlife conservation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1194-tagging-tabbies-for-wildlife-conservation
    23 Dec 2021: Cats are an enormous environmental problem in Australia, with the introduced species estimated to kill more than three billion animals per year. Monitoring cat populations is key to reducing their impact, however most monitoring methods such as
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    This scientist is forcing a rethink of how we discover marine life

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/518-this-scientist-is-forcing-a-rethink-of-how-we-discover-marine-life
    22 Jan 2018: “I don’t have the usual academic background,” said Professor Graham Edgar, who’s running one of Australia’s most successful citizen science initiatives out of the University of Tasmania. With a focus on minimising human threats to the
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    Delphine Lannuzel

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/delphine-lannuzel
    27 Jun 2023: Delphine Lannuzel’s feeling for the ocean - its health, many threats and challenges - first emerged with an eco-tragedy in her native France, in 1999, when the MV Erika, a Japanese-built tanker carrying 31,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, ran into
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    Defunct mine a site for environmental discovery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1083-defunct-mine-a-site-for-environmental-discovery
    12 Nov 2020: Beneath the sparkling waters of Tasmania’s ‘Blue Lakes’ lie three old open-cut mine pits that were targeted for tin. While the pristine blue appearance attracts water skiers and swimmers, the historic mine waste from the Endurance tin mine in

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