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Clare PeddieClimate and Environment editor

Clare Peddie is the climate and environment editor at The Advertiser driving the Green Zone campaign. She joined The Advertiser in 2006 having previously worked at the CSIRO, universities and research institutes. A passionate science communicator with an extensive and ever-expanding network of contacts, she thrives on exploring new ideas with talented people. Follow @ClarePeddie

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Advice

For a story about SAHMRI/UniAdl research on the benefits of green time versus screen time.Lenny,7 and Nash,4, in their backyard having green time on the 2nd September 2020. Pic Tait Schmaal.

‘Green time’ may remedy screen time blues

Screen time is always going to be a part of kids’ lives but while parents can never cut it out completely, Adelaide Uni research suggests there may be a very easy way to limit its side effects.

SA News

Murray River file pics - March 2020 - The Ferry at Mannum Picture Simon Cross

All of SA ‘should be concerned’: Huge shortfalls in water flows

Independent analysis of Murray-Darling Basin water flows reveals one fifth has gone missing. It’s worse in the Coorong and Murray Mouth. So what is going on?

Tertiary

EMBARGOED 10 PM WEDNESDAY Caption:Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Image credit:Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery(OzGrav)

Adelaide Uni shares thrill of ‘impossible’ discovery

Researchers in SA are basking in the “thrill of discovery” after joining a global effort to witness a massive intergalactic collision which could help us understand how galaxies are born.

Conservation

Mound Springs. Premier Mike Rann inspects the Blanche Cup mound spring at Coward Springs with Roger Higgins, Vice President and Cheif Operating Officer of BHP Billiton Base Metals.

Environment laws ‘rushed in’ under COVID

Slashing “green tape” means removing environmental protection and increasing the risk of extinctions, conservationists warn, as the federal government rushes to make approval processes easier.

SA News

26/08/20 - EPA Principal scientific office (Marine) Sam Gaylard with water samples taken from West Lakes.Picture: Tom Huntley

Testing time for West Lakes marine life

Scientists at the Environment Protection Authority are testing water, fish and crustaceans at West Lakes in a search for the source of the PFAS pollution.

Coronavirus

child mental health Young woman suffering from headache

Hidden mental toll of COVID-19

Though the physical effects of COVID-19 are by now well known, Flinders University is examining how an entire population’s mental health is suffering from the pandemic.

SA News

Port Adelaide Wastewater Treatment Plant 21 Aug 2002.

Contamination haunts West Lakes

West Lakes residents are being reminded not to use the original soil in their backyards to grow food, because contaminated sewage sludge used to build the suburb is likely to also contain the persistent pollutant PFAS, the EPA says.

SA News

23/8/20. UniSA researchers Jacynta Anderson and Joan Gibbs at Morialta Conservation Park - they have just completed a study on

Nature lovers sow seeds of Morialta’s demise

Bushwalkers, climbers and nature enthusiasts could be loving one of Adelaide’s best loved conservation parks to death with a rapidly spreading threat surprising researchers.

Education

Science brings to life the battle against deadly bugs

Dive into the slimy battlefront of the war with supervillain superbugs in Deadly Slime: a choose-your-own-adventure animated experience for National Science Week 2020.

Early Years

Finley (11) and Cohen (9) Howland playing the ANiMOZ Trading Card Game with Kinta the Quokka on August 11, 2020 at the Adelaide Zoo. Picture Matt Turner.

It’s game on for endangered animals

Conservation organisations are getting behind a Flinders University student’s plan to save endangered animals using his new trading card game. Vote for your favourite addition during August.

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