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• New Scientist – Finding Sahul
• Popular Science – Heat and drought are causing feral camels to overrun communities in Australia
• RTR FM (Perth) – Kangaroo Island Fire Aftermath
• The Chicago Tribune – 1 billion dead animals? Experts are pushing back on eye-grabbing estimate of toll in Australia wildfires
• The Advertiser – Kangaroo Island’s threatened animal species in battle for survival after bushfires destroy their habitats
• New York Times – How many animals have died in Australia’s wildfires?
• Eu Rio – Quantos animais morreram nos incêndios florestais na Austrália?
• Le Journal du Dimanche – Incendies en Australie : comment a été calculé le chiffre de 500 millions d’animaux tués?
• Nouvelles du Monde – Mitaines et biberons Koala: sauver la faune australienne après les incendies
• Daily Mail – Alpine bog skinks, corroboree frogs and broad-headed snakes: The full list of endangered animals facing extinction – as bushfires wipe out a BILLION critters
• The Chicago Tribune – Australia wildfires prove devastating to koalas, kangaroos and other animals: ‘It’s a biological Armageddon rarely seen’
• The New York Times – Koala Mittens and Baby Bottles: Saving Australia’s Animals After Fires
• The Guardian – Kangaroo Island bushfires: grave fears for unique wildlife after estimated 25,000 koalas killed
• Radio-Canada – Feux en Australie
• The National (UAE) – Beyond the Headlines: How many children is too many?
• Sci News – Study: Humans and climate change drove Australian megafauna to extinction
• Daily Telegraph – Scientists solve mystery of extinct prehistoric beasts
• News.com.au/The Advertiser/Herald Sun/New Zealand Herald – ‘A lot of suffering’: Grim 3000 yo warning about to come true
• Australia’s Science Channel – Both people and climate led to megafauna extinction
• Green Career/Water Career – Megafauna deaths detailed
• EurekAlert!/Scimex/Medianet/Phys.org – People, climate, and water supply all played a role in the extinction of Australia’s megafauna
• Flinders University Blog – Overpopulation prophecy unfolds
• Inverse – Are we in a “mass extinction” right now? Here’s the evidence
• The Advertiser – Professor Paul Ehrlich drops a bomb on coal-loving politicians, calling for action on climate change
• ABC – Are we in the sixth mass extinction on Earth? The signs are all there
• The Conversation/Gizmodo/From Press/Phys.org/Qrius/Business Daily/Modern Australian/Daily Bulletin/The Alayaran/News Pronto/The South African/Conservation Mag – What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now?
• Population Matters – High population density hurts child health, study finds
• Cosmos Magazine – Evolution holds clue to destruction by insect invaders
• The Guardian Nigeria –  How to prevent African child deaths
• The National Tribune/Mirage News – Child deaths in Africa could be prevented
• Sahara Reporters – Child mortality in Nigeria, other African nations, caused by poor basic amenities – study
• EurekAlert!/MedicalXpress/ScienceDaily – Child deaths in Africa could be prevented by family planning
• InterPress Service – Impact van overbevolking op kindersterfte zwaar onderschat
• Mamamia – Six actual, bona fide experts on the 7 best things you can do to fight climate change
• ABC News – Bird populations are collapsing, and it’s a sign of a bigger problem
• ABC – Do shark repellents work? Here’s what the science says
• ABC Sunshine Coast – Should our State Government provide rebates for shark repellent devices?
• The Messenger – Diving in to help ocean life
• Cosmos Magazine – Humans pushed cave bears towards extinction
• Yahoo! News – Are we heading toward extinction?
• ABC News – South Australia’s call for a wildlife cull (watch interview)
• University of KwaZulu-Natal – Environmental degradation study highlights importance of family planning
• InDaily – African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst
• The Science Times – 인류는 어떻게 호주로 건너갔나?
• Scimex/EurekAlert!/Phys.org – Environmental destruction linked to African population raises questions about unsustainable family sizes
• The Wire – From Sunda to Sahul: the unbelievable journey of the first Australians
• Scientias – Hoe kwamen de eerste bewoners van Australië op het continent aan?
• Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de – Studie: Erstmalige Besiedlung Australiens wurde von einer fortgeschrittenen Seefahrerkultur zielgerichtet geplant
• Atlas Obscura – How many people did it take to first occupy Australia?
• Historia y Arqueología – Dos estudios sugieren que hubo más cantidad de inmigrantes originales en el poblamento de Australia
• ARS Technica – How many people did it take to colonize Australia?
• EurekAlert!/Science Daily/Phys.org – Retracing ancient routes to Australia
• Xinhua – University collaboration reveals early humans journey to Australia
• Daily Mail UK – People first arrived in Australia in large groups 50,000 years ago, computer modelling reveals
• Radio Adelaide – Tracking Australia’s first arrivals
• Newsweek – How ancient humans reached the mega-continent of Sahul in one massive, well-planned wave of migration
• Daily Mail – People first arrived in Australia in large groups 50,000 years ago, computer modelling reveals
• ABC News AM – New details on the arrival of Indigenous Australians 50,000 years ago
• Sydney Morning Herald/Brisbane Times – Modelling shows ‘mind-blowing’ ancient Aboriginal journey to Australia
• SBS World News/9News – Aust first peoples migration was planned
• 7News – Australia’s first migrants’ arrival more than 50,000 years ago was extensively planned
• Canberra Times – First peoples migration ‘was planned’
• Scimex – First Aussies arrived in large groups using complex technologies
• The Australian – Aust first peoples migration was planned
• Mirage News – Earliest maritime routes mapped from north
• NBC News – World’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, U.N. report finds
• CABAH – Koala extinctions past, present, and future
• Echo Daily – Loss of habitat means koalas face uncertain future
• The National Tribune/Mirage News – Climate change leaves koalas facing an uncertain future
• The Conversation – Key challenges for the re-elected Coalition government: our experts respond
• ABC ‘The Signal’ – So you’re in an extinction wave
• Independent Australia – On Australia’s major environmental crises
• Australia’s Science Channel – Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations
• Radio Adelaide – Potential for native fish boost
• Water Career – Snag study shows sticks help
• Business Insider – 15 signs we’re in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
• EurekAlert!/ScienceDaily/Phys.Org/7th Space/Eco Magazine/Fishing World – Australian Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations
• KBS World Radio Korea 24 – Environmental impact of high populations (listen)
• Climate Code Red – New study shows IPCC is underselling climate change
• Truth Out – Children are demanding dramatic climate action. Listen to them
• Phys.org/EurekAlert! – Study shows IPCC is underselling climate change
• Science Daily/Open Forum – IPCC is underselling climate change
• Daily Kos – IPCC reports too conservative with language as new modelling suggest warming’s underestimated
• Keep It Clever – Dingoes aren’t dogs but native Aussies
• Vet Practice Magazine – Dingoes are native — and need protecting
• Radio EcoShock – The rules of extinction
• Triple J – Research has found that dingoes are not related to other dogs …
• Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Radio – Why the dingo needs to be protected
• Stiripesurse – Descoperire a cercetătorilor australieni – Dingo este o specie de sine stătătoare, diferită de câini sau lupi
• Science Daily – Australian dingo is a unique Australian species in its own right
• tekk – Dingoes sollten in Australien eine eigenständige Art bleiben
• DevDiscourse – Australian researchers sound confident say dingo is not a dog, a new species
  
• BT – Australske forskere: En dingo er ikke en hund
• Art Daily – Australian researchers say dingo is not a dog, but own species
• ABC News – Dingoes are a ‘fair dinkum’ separate species needing better protection, researchers say
• ABC News – Dingo a ‘fair-dinkum’ separate species (watch)
  
• Lab Roots – Should Australia recognize the dingo as a distinct species?
• Katherine Times – Researchers want dingoes ‘protected’
• EurekAlert!; Phys.org; Scimex; 7th Space – Dingoes should remain a distinct species in Australia
• ABC Radio (Sydney, Alice Springs, Riverland SA, Adelaide) – Dingoes not related to other dogs and should be protected
• Le Courrier Australien; RTL; rfi.fr; Malay Mail; Yahoo! Singapore; Channel News Asia; Rappler; Daily Magazine; Business Standard India; GMA News; Deccan Herald; New Straits Times; South Coast Herald; Rising Sun Chatworth; Pretoria North Rekord; Ladysmith Gazette; Ridge Times; Standerton Advertiser; Berea Mail; Brakpan Herald; Randfontein Herald; Corridor Gazette; Capricorn Voice; MSN; Northglen News – Australian researchers say dingo is not a dog, but own species
• Toowoomba Chronicle; Warwich Daily News; Gympie Times; Gladstone Observer; Daily Mercury News; NewsMail; Morning Bulletin; Sunshine Coast Daily; Queensland Times; Coffs Coast Advocate; The Daily Examiner; Lismore Morning Star – Unique claim confirmed for Australia’s dingoes
• Fraser Coast Chronicle – Unique claim confirmed
• Radio Adelaide – Extinction science with Prof. Bradshaw
• ABC North and West SA (Breakfast with Paul Culliver) – Global insect declines
• ABC Adelaide 891 Radio (Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff – David Attenborough and the World Economic Form (live interview)
• Tom Dispatch – “We can’t undo this”
• Wall Street International (Italia) – Cambiamenti climatici e coestinzioni
• The Advertiser – Work nears on huge Yorke Peninsula open-range sanctuary under Great Southern Ark plans
• The Islander – KI feral cat program contributes to positive biodiversity outlook
• Thom Hartmann Program, Ring of Fire Radio – The extinction domino effect that could annihilate all life on Earth has already begun
• Climate News Network – Extinction toll may be far worse than thought
• National Geographic (España) – El cambio climático podría causar un efecto dominó en la extinción global
• Rinnovabili – Grandi estinzioni, sottostimato l’effetto domino del riscaldamento globale
• The University Network – Climate change could trigger extinction domino effect
• I Fucking Love Science – Runaway global warming could create an “extinction domino effect” wiping out all life on Earth
• Earth.com – Climate change could trigger a cascade of extinctions domino effect
• Daily Mail – Climate change could trigger an ‘extinction domino effect’ that would annihilate all life on Earth, chilling report warns
• Blue Planet Heart – I cambiamenti climatici aumentano l’effetto domino che causa l’estinzione delle specie
• Express – END OF WORLD: Climate change could trigger DEATH of ALL species in ‘domino effect’
• V3 – Global warming increases risk of ‘extinction domino effect’, warns EU study
• Science Daily/Eureka Alert/Phys.org – Global warming increases the risk of an extinction domino effect
• InDaily – Optimistic SA environmental report card issued
• News.com.au – Australian government inquiry grapples with growing extinction crisis
• Daily Courier – Talking about extinction
• BC Local News/Kelowna Capital News/Penticton Western News – Expert to speak on extinction of species and humanity’s peril in Kelowna
• UBC Okanagan News – UBC hosts global-change expert Corey Bradshaw
• The New Daily – Thousands of ways to kill the world: Global warming is the worst-case scenario
• SBS News – Climate change may cause mass extinctions, new report shows
• Tech2 – Extreme environmental changes could trigger the annihilation of all life on earth: study – WorldStage
• dpa International – Study: Climate change losses could trigger ‘extinction domino effect’
• ABC AM – Loss of animal or plant species to climate change could cause global ‘extinction domino effect’
• Yahoo! – Climate change risks extinction effect
• CABAH – Creating virtual Earths to investigate climate change and co-extinction (watch)
• Hakai Magazine – Many shark repellents don’t work
• Adelaide Now – Flinders University Professor explains climate change’s effect on SA if we limit warming to 1.5 C
• Adelaide Advertiser – Why SA’s crops and fish stocks face ruin
• Australian Science Channel – EU renewable-energy policy chips away at forestry protections
• ABC Radio National – The scientist’s guide to a successful career in academia (listen)
• Australia’s Science Channel – How to get ahead in science
• Flinders University – Sustainability at Flinders (video)
• BBC: More or Less: Should we have smaller families to save the planet?
• ALERT – Scientists critique transport strategy of Asian Infrastructure Development Bank
• NT News – ‘It’s simply not good enough … to be leaving the next generation with a crisis like this’
• Stock Journal – A jump ahead on rabbit control
• MD Magazine – How population and global resources are reaching a boiling point
• News.com.au – Endangered species could suffer silent extinction in Environment Department reshuffle
• InDaily – High time for a ‘smart’ offshore energy plan for SA
• Plantae – Interview with Professor Corey Bradshaw, The Effective Scientist
• ABC Late Afternoons – interview with Sarah Tomlinson about our work with the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
• InDaily – The last rhino: why populations can’t be saved by a single breeding pair
• NZ Herald – When survival odds get too big
• Conservation Careers – Standing on the shoulders of giants – a chat with Corey Bradshaw from ConservationBytes
• Radio Adelaide – Dingoes (listen, forward to 48:40)
• ABC – Dingo fence dismantlement could help farmers and the environment, ecologist claims
• La Croix – Cent études sur la nature qu’il faut avoir lues dans sa vie
• ABC Afternoons – Insect declines (listen)
• Global Journalist – The Overpopulation Debate (watch)
• Triple J Hack (ABC) – Big game hunting (listen)
• 2SER (radio) – The ongoing biological annihilation
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta – Russian population in 2050 will be reduced by 20 million (Население РФ к 2050 году сократится на 20 миллионов)
• Science Magazine News at a Glance – Construction begins on world’s largest predator-free zone
• InDaily – Fleurieu wetlands face high extinction risk
• Green Career – Small swamps play big role
• Australasian Science – Fertilisers make plants weaker
• ALERT – Australian wins egg-frying contest for Trump
• Radio New Zealand (Rural News) – Fertilisers & crop health (listen; my bit starts at 01:46)
• Adelaide Advertiser/Courier Mail/Daily Telegraph/Herald Sun/News.com.au – Fertilisers found to reduce plants’ resistance to fungal diseases
• Flinders University – Earth crusader’s fight for biodiversity
• Publish, Perish, or Podcast – Breakfast, Shitty Science Workshops and New Year’s Eve (listen; my bit starts at 40:30)
• RTHK Radio 3 Backchat (Hong Kong) – Animal extinction (listen)
• EnergyDesk – Is the boreal forest on the edge of a climate change tipping point?
• 2HD radio – Living Planet Report 2016 (listen)
• News.com.au – The mass #extinction event going unnoticed
• Bangkok Post – Invasive insects cause tens of billions in damage: study
• News.com.au – Invasive insects are costing the world at least $100 billion a year, study finds
• Science Daily – Invasive insects: underestimated cost to the world economy
• La Vanguardia – Los insectos invasivos generan un costo subestimado a la economía mundial
• El Tiempo – Insectos invasores cuestan unos 77.000 millones de dólares anuales
• Scientias.nl – Invasieve insecten kosten mogelijk tot wel 270 miljard dollar per jaar
• Latin America Herald Tribune – Invasive insects cause damages of $77 billion a year
• Phys.Org – Invasive insects—an underestimated cost to the world economy
• EurakAlert – Invasive insects: an underestimated cost to the world economy
• Public Radio International – Recent study shows that invasive insects cause billions of dollars in damage each year
• MSN – Le monde paie un lourd tribut économique aux insectes envahissants
• Australian Science Channel – The Neanderthal in Me (view)
• Radio New Zealand – Looking to the future with Corey Bradshaw (listen)
• New Zealand Herald – Professor Corey Bradshaw’s open letter to his daughter: ‘Please forgive us’
• Otago Daily Times – Buying time
• Cosmos – Climate change ‘the key to megafauna extinction’
• Washington Post – A catastrophic collision of human hunters and climate change killed off the Ice Age giants
• New York Times – 12,000 years ago, humans and climate change made a deadly team
• ABC 891 – Sir Hubert Wilkins (listen from 2:37:00)
• ABC News – Conservationists welcome 49 new species being declared endangered
• Australasian Science – Models predict location of new megafauna fossils
• Radio New Zealand – Population limits
• The Guardian – Cecil’s legacy: could the death of one lion start a conservation movement?
• The Hindu – New models can help fossil hunt
• Financial Express – New mathematical models predict where to find fossils
• Business Standard – New models predict where to find fossils
• Science Daily – New models predicting where to find fossils
• Heritage Daily – New models predicting where to find fossils
• Radio Adelaide – Species diversity a key to infectious disease resistance (listen)
• Radio Adelaide – Flowers of the field (listen)
• SBS – Scientists propose US turn Guantanamo Bay into a marine conservation park
• Ensia – Is biodiversity the best medicine?
• Science Daily – Biodiversity brings disease resistance
• BBC Earth – How many people can our planet really support?
• GEO Extra (France) – Quand minou devient un tueur en série
• Planet Experts – Half of Australia’s koalas now have the clap
• ABC Radio National – Researchers discover the cause of megafauna die out 40,000 years ago
• Panorama – Species on the move
• BBC – The lost giants that prowled the Australian wilderness
• Radio Adelaide – Who dun it? Us
• Phys.org – Study identifies most vulnerable tropical reef fish
• Radio Adelaide – Kill to preserve: sustainable trophy hunting
• ABC – Trophy hunting needs regulation not bans, researchers say
• Crikey – Is curbing deforestation the best way for Australia to combat climate change?
• Examiner.com – Earth’s biggest threats—population growth and consumerism
• The Guardian – There’s a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you think
• Scope Season 3 – Feathers, fur and fins
• The Lead – Why the big animals died: new study shakes up extinction science
• New Scientist – Megafauna extinction: DNA evidence pins blame on climate change
• Washington Post – Abrupt climate change may have doomed mammoths and other megafauna, scientists report
• CBS News – Did climate change kill the woolly mammoth?
• Nature World News – Mammoths and heat: like other mega-fauna, warming hurt
• Wild Magazine – A brief history of the koalas of South Australia
• The LOLstralian – South Australia koala cull not on horizon: Ian Hunter
• Adelaide Hills Magazine – 1 Hour With … Professor Corey Bradshaw
• The Advertiser – Nuclear industry is far better than muddling along
• Wired – The biggest threat to the Earth? We have too many kids
• Québec Science – Biodiversité: à la rescousse du bush
• The Wire – Australia’s extinction crisis – you’re next! (listen)
• TERN Newsletter – People using TERN: Corey Bradshaw
• The Weather Channel – Humanity’s impact on Earth illustrated in ‘Overdevelopment, Overpopulate, Overshoot’
• Aspire Magazine – Giants of Science
• Mongabay – Is nuclear the way to go?
• Radio Adelaide – Predator-free, offshore islands (listen)
• The Independent – Nuclear power is the greenest option, say top scientists
• ABC Current Affairs – Dingoes could be good for cattle farms
• ABC Current Affairs – Smartphones turn citizens into scientists
• Asian Scientist – Consider nuclear, for biodiversity’s sake
• Planet Experts – The koala may be headed for extinction
• BBC World Service – No recovery plan for threatened koalas (live interview)
• The Guardian – Koalas face extinction without stronger protection, say conservationists
• Der Tagsspiegel – Umweltforscher fordern Ausbau der Kernenergie
• Planeta Sustentável – Cientistas pedem energia nuclear para salvar biodiversidade
• Washington Post – Why climate change is forcing some environmentalists to back nuclear power
• Conservation Magazine – Is nuclear power key to biodiversity?
• Farm Weekly – Predators can benefit pasture
• Phys.Org – Dingoes bring economic benefit to cattle graziers
• InDaily – Dingoes ‘good for farming economy’: SA study
• Mongabay – Without draconian measures, global population boom is ‘locked in’
• Ecos – Population control would do little to reduce humanity’s ecological footprint this century
• Radio Adelaide – The sky is falling (listen)
• Radio Novosti – We are ‘locked-in’ to catastrophic overpopulation unless we take action now (listen)
• Scientific American – Birth control could help the environment, but not quickly
• The Guardian – Global overpopulation would ‘withstand war, disasters and disease’
• New Scientist – A killer plague wouldn’t save the planet from us
• I Fucking Love Science – Study suggests population control is no quick fix for environmental problems
• Times of India – Population explosion is unstoppable, say scientists
• Science – No way to stop human population growth?
• Washington Post – Stop pretending we can fix the environment by curbing population growth
• BBC – Population controls ‘will not solve environment issues’
• Irish Examiner – World War 3 would hardly make a dent in the world’s population
• L’Obs – Population : la croissance serait inéluctable avant 2100
• Mongabay – Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island
• 2SER Radio – World wildlife populations have halved in the past 40 years…
• Adelaide Advertiser – Scientists push for continued fishing bans in SA marine park sanctuary zones
• The Guardian – WA shark cull condemned by global group of marine scientists
• Hijacked – Hundreds of marine experts speak out about Western Australia’s shark cull
• ABC – Threatened Species Commissioner lacks teeth (authored)
• ABC – Feral cats: the worst predator of all (listen)
• Phys.org – South Australia’s citizens make koalas count
• Behind the News – Animal extinction (watch)
• Mongabay – Scientists urge ban on roads in intact wilderness areas
• ABC Lateline – Australia may have to ‘triage’ unique species (watch)
• ABC – Scientists resign ‘living dead’ species to extinction, call for triage debate
• Australasian Science – Ecologists rebuke PM’s ‘no more parks’ vow
• Wildlife Extra – Australian PM outrages with anti national parks stance
• Mongabay/Charity Vault – Scientists blast Australian leader’s proposed ban on parks
• Mongabay – Next big idea in forest conservation? Incentivizing keeping primary forests intact
• Campus Review – The early word
• Daily Mercury – New movie aims to paint nuclear as the green option
• Radio Adelaide – Forest fragmentation (listen)
• Nature – Early publishers thrive
• BBC News – Forest fragmentation triggers ‘ecological Armageddon’
• Science Now – Biodiversity in forest fragments proves precarious
• ABC – ‘One-two punch’ decimates small mammals
• New York Times – In fragmented forests, rapid mammal extinctions
• National Geographic – Paying the extinction debt
• New Scientist – Mammals in fragmented forests die out within 25 years
• International Science Times – Forest fragmentation causing mammal species to die off faster than expected
• Mongabay – ‘Ecological Armageddon’: mammals vanish entirely from forest fragments after 25 years
• Latin American Press – Continued environmental degradation
• EurakAlert – Wildlife face ‘Armageddon’ as forests shrink
• NBC News – Man-made jungle islands spell extinction for the smallest critters
• Science Daily – For scientists, early to press means success
• United Academics – Predicting who will publish or perish as career academics
• PhysOrg – For scientists, early to press means success
• Australian Geographic – Dingoes cleared of mainland extinctions
• Education Career – Redemption for dingoes from historic blame
• RedOrbit – Dingoes wrongly accused of animal extinctions
• Ecos – Dingoes wrongly blamed for tiger and devil extinctions
• Nature World News – Dingoes not entirely responsible for extinction of predators in Australia
• Business Standard – Dingo wrongly blamed for Aus extinctions
• Science Alert – Dingo didn’t cause extinctions
• Advertiser/PerthNow – Humans and climate change killed the Tassie devil and tiger, not dingoes
• The LOLstralian/Telegraph/Courier Mail/News.com/Mercury/PerthNow/NineMSN/Herald Sun – Dingo cleared of killing off Tassie tiger
• Wanderlust Magazine – Study reveals whale shark distribution across the globe
• Higher Education supplement (opinion editorial) – MPs’ ignorance puts parks in peril
• MongaBay – Whale shark mapping: scientists uncover global distribution for the largest fish in the world
• Radio Adelaide – Into the wild
• Guardian Australia – We should not play Russian roulette with Australia’s national parks
• Murray Valley Standard – Team plants green ideas at Monarto Zoo
• ABC/Yahoo/7 News – Native plantings fight deforestation trend
• Sky News – Experiment in land renewal launched
• Bigpond News – Renewal experiment begins
• Ecos – Carbon economy can also help save Australia’s species
• Sydney Morning Herald – Lines drawn over jewel in the crown
• ABC Radio National | Connect Asia – Demand surging for Indonesia’s frog trade
• National Geographic – Prehistoric plaque and the gentrification of Europe’s mouth
• The Scotsman – Human diet traced over 9000 years thanks to skulls
• Australian Geographic – Fossil bacteria reveal poor state of modern mouth
• ABC Science – Tooth decay bacteria evolved as diet changed
• Sydney Morning Herald – By gum – modern diet blamed as study reveals state of our mouths
• News.com.au – Human mouth in ‘a permanent state of disease’
• Red Orbit – Archeologists study ancient teeth to uncover evolution of disease
• Le Nouvel Observateur – Moins de bactéries, plus de caries
• 20minutes.fr – Nos bouches sont en moins bonne santé que celles de nos lointains ancêtres
• Europa Press – El análisis de bacterias de dientes antiguos permite ver la evolución de la dieta a lo largo de la historia
• iO9 – Preserved bacteria reveal how we’ve been rotting our teeth for 7,500 years
• WBTV – Human teeth healthier in the stone age than today
• Science Recorder – Ancient teeth bacteria show modern diet is rotting our teeth
• Counsel & Heal – 7,500 year old DNA shows rotting teeth a result of modern food habits
• Philadelphia Magazine – The checkup: cavemen had healthier teeth than you
• Conservation Magazine – Blame game: Humans, not disease, could have pushed Tasmanian tiger to extinction
• Australian Geographic – Tassie tiger extinction: humans solely to blame
• Scientific American – Humans alone wiped out Tasmanian tiger
• Terra – Estudo aponta que tigre da Tasmânia foi extinto pelo homem
• Planet Save – Tasmanian Tiger Was Killed Off Entirely By Humans, Not Disease
• Live Science – Humans alone wiped out Tasmanian tiger
• International Business Times – Man, not disease, killed legendary Tasmanian tiger; while Tasmanian devils dying from face-eating cancer
• NBC News – Humans alone to blame for wiping out Tasmanian tiger
• Telegraph – Tasmanian Tiger ‘was killed by man’
• Mongabay – Man drove Tasmanian Tiger to extinction in Australia
• Bangkok Post – Australia’s Tasmanian Tiger killed by man
• La Tercera – El hombre es el único responsable de la extinción del tigre de Tasmania
• SBS/LOLstralian – Humans killed off the thylacine: study
• The Global Mail – A feral cat ate my bilbies
• Australasian Science – Nature arks are sinking
• Business Insider – A formula to decide which endangered species we should save
• ABC News Radio – Scientists find half of the world’s tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity (audio) (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) – Will the carbon economy be good for biodiversity?
• BBC News – Protected tropical forests’ biodiversity ‘declining’ (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Nature – Protect and serve (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Bloomberg – Forest ‘disruption’ greater threat than climate change (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• ABC Science – Final tropical forest refuges under threat (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Mongabay – Half of tropical forest parks losing biodiversity (re: 2012 Nature paper)
• Radio Adelaide – The sharking truth about sharks
• Totally Wild – Feral buffalo in Kakadu National Park
• The Conversation – Can Australia afford the dingo fence?
• Radio Adelaide – Insurance for forests (listen)
• The Conversation – The end of field ecology?
• Ecos magazine – Insurance model for UN forest carbon scheme
• Ecoimagination – If a tree falls… preventing deforestation with insurance
• Eureka Alert!/PhysOrg/Science Codex/ScienceDaily – Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry’s book
• Campus Daily/Terra Daily/Science News Online/Silo Breaker/Medical Xpress/Science Codex/Daily Me/Eureka Alert! – New thinking required on wildlife disease
• The Breakthrough Institute – Can Technology Save the Environment?
• Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age – Babies: is the price too high?
• ABC – Seaweed moves south as oceans warm
• UPI – Seaweeds said vulnerable to climate change
• CBS News – Ocean warming sends Australian seaweed packing
• Science Alert – Biodiversity ‘lost in Southeast Asia’
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age/Herald Sun – No substitute for natural forests
• BBC News – ‘No substitute’ for virgin forest
• ABC – Species at risk ‘need old growth forests’
• The Conversation – Original and the best: nothing beats primary forests for biodiversity
• EurekAlert! – Old-growth rainforests must be saved for tropical biodiversity
• UPI – Biodiversity highest in pristine forests
• The Epoch Times – Old-Growth Rainforests Vital to Conserve Tropical Biodiversity
• People & The Planet – No substitute for undisturbed tropical forests
• Mongabay – Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity
• ABC Science – In Depth >> Meet a Scientist >> Corey Bradshaw
• The Conversation – River shark and blue goanna among 1000 new species discovered in New Guinea
• ABC News – Climate research aims to boost forests
• Scientific American – Australian mathematicians say some endangered species “not worth saving”
• Australian Geographic – New method ranks species’ extinction risk
• The Independent (UK) – Your number is up: Species doomed by mathematics
• i Online (Portugal) – Conservação. “Não podemos proteger espécies só porque são queridas”
• Radio Live (New Zealand) – Let kakapo die? [listen]
• Hirado (Hungary) – Új mutató a fajok veszélyeztetettségének mérésére
• Irish Independent – Time’s up as formula predicts extinctions
• Sina.com (Hong Kong) – 訂優先搶救瀕危物種衡量辦法 科學家指毛鼻袋熊不值得拯救 (do a Google Translate on this – very funny)
• Chosun.com – 동물 멸종을 계산하는 ‘슬픈 수학 공식’
• Corriere (Italy) – Rischio estinzione? Ora c’è un algoritmo
• Ecofinder – Νέος δείκτης μέτρησης για τα απειλούμενα είδη
• ABC PM – Conservationists fear species index may lead to extinctions [listen]
• Treehugger – New method attempts to determine which endangered species can actually be saved
• Helium – Mass extinction event well underway
• Earth Times – New ‘distance to extinction’ index could sharpen conservation focus
• Worldshare – Australian researchers develop new index to measure species extinction
• The Atlantic – Algorithm finds the hairy-nosed wombat not worth saving
• Science Daily – Scientists have new measure for species threat
• The Morning Bulletin – Scarce funds threat to project
• Digital Journal – Endangered species conservation may be helped by a new index
• La Stampa (Italy) – “Timer” che calcola il rischio di estinzione specie
• Radio NZ – Is the kakapo worth saving? [listen]
• Sydney Morning Herald/Brisbane Times – Can SAFE save the tiger?
• ABC AM – New tool to prioritise conservation of vulnerable species [listen]
• ABC News – Hairy-nosed wombat may not be worth saving
• UPI – New measure of species threat developed
• Mongabay – New method to measure threat of extinction could help conservationists prioritize
• Treehugger – New scale could help save critically endangered species
• The LOLstralian – Extinction index to help save species
• Fast Company – SAFE: A formula to decide which endangered species have the best shot
• Vietnam Tribune – New index shows endangered species
• Science Alert – New guide to predict extinction
• Sydney Morning Herald/The Age – The SAFE way to save a tiger
• PhysOrg/Newswise/EurekAlert! – Scientists have new measure for species threat
• NineMSN – New index shows endangered species
• The LOLstralian – One-in-five mammals are close to extinction as new index shows endangered species
• International Business Times – Scientists develop new measure to determine how close species are to extinction
• Channel Ten News – ‘Colour-blind sharks‘ (interview regarding a recently published paper)
• Jakarta Globe – The fine print on forest protection
• Straits Times – Conservation 101 guide to go online
• Miller-McCune – Curiouser and Curiouser: Hidden Cost of Frog Legs
• Mongabay – Nobel Prize winner, anti-poverty group, scientists fire back at logging lobbyist
• Jakarta Globe – Conservation Debate III: A Rejoinder to Alan Oxley
• Rainforest Action Network – The world’s second oldest profession
• New York Times – Scientists spar with defender of palm oil and pulp firms
• MongaBay – Scientists blast greenwashing by front groups
• Jakarta Globe – The thinker: A middle way
• The LOLstralian – Facts forced to fit agenda
• The Guardian – Leading scientists accuse thinktanks of being logging lobbyists
• Greenpeace UK – Scientists criticise claims by logging and palm oil industry mouthpieces
• The Great Beyond (Nature.com) – Scientists question think tanks’ motives
• The Guardian – Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife
• MongayBay – Nation’s wealth does not guarantee green practices
• One India – Isolation of Great Barrier Reef could lead to extinction of marine life⁵
• Science Alert – Quiet reefs risk extinction
• Our Amazing Planet/Live Science/Yahoo! News/Tehran Times – Fish in isolated coral reefs in greater peril
• Australian Geographic – Smaller, isolated reefs more vulnerable
• Sydney Morning Herald – Small reef fish species at risk
• Sify – Isolation of Great Barrier Reef could lead to extinction of marine life
• PhysOrg/LabSpaces/Science Daily/Campus Daily/Innovations Report – Isolation a threat to Great Barrier Reef fish
• Independent Weekly – Progress is a killer
• Bendigo Advertiser – Not ‘buzz off’ but ‘please stay’ bats
• AdelaideNow – Counting to extinction (briefly mentioned here)
• Huffington Post – Our environmental impact rank paper mentioned on Huffington Post
• Daily India/Sify – Global biodiversity much less than previously thought³
• New Scientist – Global biodiversity estimate revised down³
• NewNotizie – Clima: Brasile paese con maggior impatto
• Change.org – New country ranking on wide environmental impacts
• Grist Magazine – Top 10 countries ruining the planet—and more news from around the world
• The Straits Times/AsiaOne – Is Singapore the worst environmental offender?
• Radio Australia – New study ranks Australia among top 10 worst environmental offenders (listen)
• Care2 – Top 10 countries ruining the planet
• CBS News – Study: Getting richer does not mean getting greener
• Radio America – Elaboran una lista de los países que causan mayor impacto medioambiental
• TT.com – Die Umweltsünder dieser Welt: Brasilien, USA und China führen
• Schweiz Magazin – Umweltsünder: Brasilien, USA und China führen
• Tempo Interaktif – Negara Kaya Belum Tentu Berwawasan Lingkungan
• Pressetext Austria – Brasilien, USA und China führen als Umweltsünder
• ABC News Radio – Study shows Australia is in the top 10 countries with worst environmental impact on the planet (listen)
• Viva News – Indonesia, rangking empat perusak lingkungan
• Ecologiae/Giornale di Pachino – Singapore e Brasile sono i Paesi meno amici dell’ambiente, l’Italia per ora è salva
• Epoch Times – 澳洲名列十大环境破坏国
• Cool Earth – Brazil comes top of world’s worst polluters
• Panorama – Foreste: Brasile e Usa in testa alla top ten dei paesi ad alto impatto
• La Scienze – L’impatto ambientale e la ricchezza delle nazioni
• Corriere Della Sera – «Sviluppo insostenibile»: le dieci nazioni con il maggior impatto ambientale
• Babr News – Россию занесли в список лидеров по негативному воздействию на природу
• Ria Novosti – Científicos sitúan a Rusia entre los países con mayor impacto ambiental
• Ria Novosti – Россию занесли в список лидеров по негативному воздействию на природу
• Live Science/Yahoo! News – Brazil and U.S. ranked worst for environmental impact
• Smart Planet – U.S. ranks among the top environmental offenders
• Indiaserver – India Ranked 7th Among Worst Climate Polluters, US And China Ranked 2nd And 3rd⁴
• Thaindian News/Economic Times/Top News/China National News/Times of India/The Hindu/Silicon India/OneWorld South Asia/Deccan Herald – India among the worst 10 climate polluters⁴
• Sueddeutsche – Asiatische Umweltsünder
• Dynamic Business – Australia in world’s top ten polluters: Adelaide Uni Study
• Click Green – Brazil sits bottom of global league of nations’ green impact
• Sydney Morning Herald – We’re in the top 10 of worst polluters
• The Age/WA Today/Farm Weekly/Queensland Country Life/Stock Journal/North Queensland Register/Stock & Land/Brisbane Times/The Land/The Independent Weekly – Australia’s global footprint one of the worst
• redOrbit – Countries ranked on environmental impact
• Planetsave – Countries ranked on environmental impact in new study
• Energy Matters – Australia a Top 10 environmental offender
• ABC News/Tree Hugger – Australian ranks in top 10 for environmental harm
• PhysOrg/e!Science/Bright Surf/EurekAlert/News Guide/News Blaze/Newswise/YubaNet/Science Centric – New study ranks countries on environment impact
• Down to Earth (India) – Culled, efficiently
• Mongabay – Nestle’s palm oil debacle highlights current limitations of certification scheme (about our paper accessible here)
• AdelaideNow – Sort blog from the bad
• SARDI Media – Conservation by numbers
• The Environment Institute – Corey Bradshaw named a Scopus Young Researcher of the Year
• The LOLstralian – Conservation gains a technical solution
• AlphaGalileo/R&D Magazine/Science Daily/Science Centric/CiênciaHoje – Killing in the name of conservation
• Kosmos – A jagged truth
• American Scientist – A magic number?
• Natural History magazine – Save the Conifers: Northern forests need protection, too
• Conservation Magazine – Last Legs: The not-so-healthy appetite for frog legs
• ScienceNOW Daily News – Trade in frog legs may spread disease³
• ScienceAlert – Sharks vulnerable to change
• Payson Roundup – Endangered species triage way too late
• Slashfood – World’s frog capital forced to import frogs for festival²
• The Adelaidean – Raise targets to prevent extinction
• Turkish Weekly – Is frog delicacy on its last legs?
• ABC Midday Report/Triple J/ABC 702 – Concern over looming extinction threats
• Time Magazine – When is a species endangered?
• Conservation Magazine – Greater expectations
• Futura – Conservation: des objectifs trop bas pour les espèces menacées
• Ecologiae – I calcoli sulla sopravvivenza delle specie a rischio sono sbagliati
• BigHunter – Le specie a rischio estinzione potrebbero essere molte di più
• Mongabay – To save species conservationists must focus on conserving at least 5000 individuals
• News.com.au – How low should they go to avoid extinction
• Environmental News Network – New Research Suggests Conservation Biologists are Setting Minimum Population Size Targets Too Low to Prevent Extinction
• Peak Oil – Populations of endangered species falling too far
• Conservation Maven – Conservation targets too small to fight extinction, study argues
• PhysOrg – Conservation targets too small to stop extinction: study
• Science Daily/redOrbit/Innovations Report/Yahoo India News/YubaNet/e! Science News/First Science/Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News/Bio-Medicine/News Guide/EurekAlert/Net India123/Biology News Net/LittleAbout/Gaea Times/NewsTrack India/WebIndia123/Daily India/NewKerala/DNA India/Track.in News/Bright Surf/AndhraNews/Newspost Online – Conservation targets too small to stop extinction
• The Examiner – Current conservation targets may not prevent extinction in a warming world
• New Scientist – Conservation targets too low to save at-risk species
• Courier International – Siberia under threat of chainsaws
• ABC Country Hour (SA) – Urgent call to preserve boreal forest
• El Mundo – Illegal timber from Siberia
• Tiempos de la Internet – Boreal forests threatened by climate change
• Der Standard – Boreal forest threatens Amazon fate
• Ria Novosti – Environmental threat looming over the boreal forest
• Panorama – Taiga is the new Amazon: the last intact forests at risk
• Pressetexte – Largest forest area in the world at high risk
• El Mundo – Warning about boreal forest degradation
• Gazeta.ru – Russia cuts most
• World Science – Last great forest under threat, study finds
• G-Online/Innovations Report – World’s last great forests under threat
• Sydney Morning Herald – Forest threat
• Thaindian/Newstrack India/Gaea Times/Daily India/Little About/Australian News– World’s last remaining “pristine” forest under threat
• Malaysia Sun/Mangalorean/Sindh Today/Thaindian – Fires, humans threaten world’s last few pristine forests
• Western Star – Corner Brook professor among those trying to save boreal
• ScienceAlert – Pristine forest starting to go
• PhysOrg/ScienceDaily/Eureka/R&D/InSciences/Science Centric/Biology News Net/redOrbit – World’s last great forest under threat: new study
• ABC – Fewer mosquitoes may be a bad thing
• Mongabay – Boreal forests in wealthy countries being rapidly destroyed
• Guardian Food Blog – Are frogs on their last legs?
• Guardian – Why we shouldn’t eat frogs’ legs
• ABC – Climate change could hit aquaculture
• AdelaideNow – Experts warn of climate change threat to seafood industry
• ABC Online – Illegal fishing continues to devastate northern stocks
• Science Alert – Illegal fishing still a problem
• Straits Times (Singapore) – More beachings to come?
• AFP/Economic Times – Climate change to bring more whale beachings
• ScienceAlert – Model makes malaria forecasts
• Malaysia Sun/The Hindu – Researchers can predict number of mosquitoes two months ahead
• NewsTrack India/Thaindian – Scientists find way to predict mosquito outbreaks
• Science Daily – Predicting mosquito outbreaks for disease control
• Radio Australia News – Pacific mosquito breakthrough claimed
• Independent Weekly – Research to help check mosquito-borne diseases
• AdelaideNow – SA scientists can predict dangerous mosquito plagues
• ABC Online – System developed to predict mosquito outbreaks
• Russia Today – Who ate all the frogs?
• Discovery Channel – Global appetite for frog legs threatens species
• ABC Bush Telegraph – Frogs’ legs furore (listen)
• BBC News – A billion frogs on world’s plates
• Washington Post – Eaten to extinction?
• The LOLstralian – Humans eating frogs into extinction
• Los Angeles Times – Are frogs being ‘eaten to extinction’? Some researchers say yes
• CBC Quirks & Quarks – Frog leg feeding frenzy (listen)
• Sydney Morning Herald – Frogs are on their last legs: study
• ABC Radio – Appetite for frog legs leading to extinction (listen)
• Radio New Zealand – Frog feast (listen)
• SBS – Ecologist says frogs legs should be off the menu (listen)
• SBS – Frogs in danger of croaking it (listen)
• NZ Herald – Frogs on their last legs: study
• Toronto Star – Extinction path. Garlicky legs
• Straits Times – Global appetite for frogs’ legs could see them croak
• Science News – Overly hungry for frogs
• PresseText (Germany) – Eine Mrd. Frösche landen jährlich auf den Tellern
• MongaBay.com – One billion frogs harvested as food per year
• National Geographic News Watch – Are Humans Now Eating Frogs to Extinction?
• Cosmos Magazine – Frog leg trade sending amphibians extinct
• NDTV.com (India) – Endangered: Frogs vanishing as they turn part of dining menu
• ABC (USA) – Appetite For Frogs’ Legs Harming Wild Populations
• The Age – Frogs are on their last legs: study
• Science Alert – Delicious frogs heading for extinction
• The Hindu (India) – Frogs vanishing as they become part of dinning [sic] menu
• News24 (South Africa) – Frogs about to croak
• Economic Times (India) – Frogs in danger of being ‘eaten to extinction’
• AdelaideNow – Frogs on their last legs
• The Earth Times – Researchers say frogs about to croak
• Sky News – Frogs on their last legs – study
• ScienceDaily – Frogs Are Being Eaten To Extinction, Experts Say
• PerthNow – Humans eating frogs into extinction
• ABC – Appetite for frog legs leading to extinction
• New Scientist – Appetite for frogs’ legs harming wild populations
• ABC Adelaide – Grey nurse sharks
• AdelaideNow – Grey nurse sharks will venture into our waters
• Mongabay.com – Limestone karsts – islands of biodiversity in Asia – under threat from mining
• Plenty Magazine – Could global warming benefit one species of endangered shark?¹
• ABC – Climate change ‘may save’ grey nurse shark¹
• AdelaideNow – Young Tall Poppy Science Awards announced
• Uni Adelaide – Five Tall Poppies of science at Uni of Adelaide
• Discovery Channel – Is the world’s largest shark shrinking?
• Cambodian Times – Loss of forests spells death of bio-diversity
• Mongabay.com – Tropical biodiversity on “a trajectory toward disaster”
• Daily India – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Malaysia Sun – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Independent Weekly – Forest loss a threat
• ScienceAlert – Tropical habitats disappearing fast
• Adelaide Now – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Herald Sun – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• The LOLstralian – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Brisbane Courier Mail – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• The Daily Telegraph Australia – Time for that tropical getaway
• The Daily Green – World Losing Rain Forest the Size of Illinois Every Year
• Thaindian News – World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss
• Thaindian News – Loss of forests spells death of bio-diversity
• News.com.au – Forest loss ‘threatening humans’
• Radio Adelaide – Corruption killing the world’s forests
• ABC Radio National (Bush Telegraph) – Invasive or threatened?
• United Press International (USA) – Scientists ID species’ ecological fates
• ScienceAlert: Study determines ‘species to watch’
• Thaindian News (Bangkok): New study to identify species prone to extinction under environmental change
• Conservation Magazine: Flood Insurance
• Ecos: No easy solutions to Kakadu’s feral animal problem

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• Koalas hang by a thread as forests shrink (14/06/2019)
• Dingoes a native species – so need protecting (08/03/2019)
• Optimistic SA environmental report card issued (21/11/2018)
• Losing species to climate change causes global ‘extinction domino effect’ (14/11/2018)
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• Climate not to blame for megafauna extinction in Australia (01/02/2016)
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• Nuclear should be in the energy mix for biodiversity (15/12/2014)
• Dingoes bring economic benefit to cattle graziers (11/12/2014)
• Reducing population is no environmental ‘quick fix’ (28/10/2014)
• South Australia’s citizens make koalas count (30/04/2014)
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• Dingo wrongly blamed for extinctions (09/09/2013)
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• Avoiding biodiversity collapse in tropical forest reserves (26/07/2012)
• Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry’s book (18/04/2012)

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¹I didn’t actually say anywhere in this interview that climate change would ‘save’ grey nurse sharks; I did say that increased population connectivity resulting from warming waters might reduce extinction risk. I loathe how reporters ‘quote’ scientists even when they never actually said these words. Ah, the sensationalism of scientific media!

²Another corker of bad ‘journalism’. See post here for explanation

³My comments on another paper.

⁴What? It’s not about climate pollution – it’s a bloody environmental degradation metric. Did these people even read the paper? Another classic example of hack-and-regurgitate reporting.

⁵While the article isn’t too awful, the title misses the point of the paper entirely.