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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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Diminishing water levels on the Darling River below weir 32 near Menindee, Wednesday, February 13, 2019. The Darling River and the Menindee Lakes are under pressure due to low water flows as a result of the continuing drought affecting more than 98% of New South Wales. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

More pain, animal deaths as rivers face ‘very dry’ 2019

The Murray-Darling Basin is facing another year of challenging conditions as authorities battle to safeguard wildlife and habitat from the effects of drought.

Space

SA bound for its own astronauts

Space experts say Australia is edging closer to having its own astronauts, teaming up with the UAE space agency to share learning.

SA News

Fire ecologists in the Natural Resources Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges fire management unit planned and executed a controlled burn to benefit the naked sun orchid in a swamp near Mount Lofty (Adelaide Hills, 2017). Supplied. - DEW firefighter protecting unburnt patch during burn

The day they burnt orchids to save them

A daring experiment to save the naked sun orchid from extinction in SA has paid off for the ecologists who set fire to it.

SA News

25/11/15 - Day 2 - The Pinery Bushfire in the mid north - a flare up near Hamley BridgePicture Simon Cross

South Australia is still waiting for its bushfire D-Day

Having come through our hottest day on record relatively unscathed, there’s a feeling among experts that South Australia dodged a bullet — the state didn’t go down in flames. We’ve been fortunate, but our luck won’t last.

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Researchers at the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for AncientDNA analysed DNA from prehistoric penguin bones found on the ChathamIslands east of New Zealand. The DNA revealed the existence of twopreviously unknown penguins. Here, an artist’s impression of a new speciesof crested penguin (*Eudyptes warhami*) in the foreground, with the newdwarf subspecies of yellow-eyed penguin (*Megadyptes antipodes richdalei*)in the background. Painting by Sean Murtha

Penguin evolution puzzle decoded

University of Adelaide researchers have discovered two new species of penguin after analysing prehistoric bones from New Zealand.

SA News

Beachgoers are seen jumping off a jetty at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Thursday, January 24, 2019. Adelaide could exceed its highest recorded temperature of 46.1C, toppling an 80-year-old heat record this week, as South Australia suffers extreme conditions. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

Heatwave brought down hundreds, experts were ready for more

More than 220 South Australians needed medical help in last week’s record-breaking heatwave. It could have been much worse — and experts will meet today to discuss why it wasn’t.

SA News

Monarto's hand raised giraffe Eyelean getting her birthday cake today for her first birthday . Picture: Zoos SA

No longnecks at giraffe calf’s first birthday party

Eyelean the giraffe had to be bottle-fed by zookeepers after being rejected by her mother. But after a tough 12 months, she’s tucked into birthday cake at her party to celebrate turning one.

SA News

Flinders University Associate Professor Jill Carr from the College of Medicine and Public Health. Supplied.

Scientists bust a gut to stop gastro outbreaks

Flinders University’s new intelligence on viral gastro is set to curb epidemics that regularly sweep through schools, aged care facilities and hospital wards.

SA News

Campbelltown mother, Shonica Guy and her son Izaya were shocked to discoverthe popular *Where’ Wally?* book shows illustrations of children usingpoker machines. SA-BEST MLC and gambling spokesperson, Connie Bonaros MLC,has written to the publisher. Supplied pics of the cover and spread ofconcern.

Pokies campaigner shocked by Where’s Wally illustration

Reformed pokies addict and mother Shonica Guy was “absolutely horrified” when her six-year-old Izaya found three poker machines in a popular Where’s Wally? picture book.

SA News

Fishing at the Murray Mouth on Sunday January 27, 2019, near the site of adramatic rescue. Supplied.

Boys rescued from Murray Mouth rip

A fisherman “in the right place at the right time” has warned against swimming at the Murray Mouth after he led a dramatic rescue of two boys in trouble on Sunday.

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