University of Tasmania (UTAS)

The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia.

The number of “food shocks” are increasing due to extreme weather and geopolitical crises

Global food production is suffering from an increasing number of “food shocks”, with most caused by extreme weather and geopolitical crises. An international study led by researchers from IMAS and the Centre for Marine Socioecology looked at the incidence of land and marine food shocks – sudden losses in food production – between 1961 and 2013. The

The number of “food shocks” are increasing due to extreme weather and geopolitical crises

Reducing human population is no environmental ‘quick fix’

New multi-scenario modelling of world human population has concluded that even stringent fertility restrictions or a catastrophic mass mortality would not bring about large enough change this century to solve issues of global sustainability. Published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, ecologists Professor Corey Bradshaw and Professor Barry

Reducing human population is no environmental ‘quick fix’

To Save Fish and Birds

But it would be an overreaction to despair over this report. One of the few bright spots in the struggle to protect the world’s fragile oceans has been the rapidly increasing number of “marine-protected areas,” places where fishing is limited or banned and where, presumably, depleted species can recover by simply being left to themselves.

To Save Fish and Birds

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University of Tasmania (UTAS) Research

Do Seismic Tests Impact Marine Mammals? The Science Says ‘No’
As supporters of wind industrial development off the northeastern US Atlantic coast have discovered in recent years, the use of seismic surveys is an essential ...
Two UT Scientists Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Four faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin, including two in the College of Natural Sciences, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest ...
UTA scientists test for quantum nature of gravity
A new study in Nature Physics from physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington reports on a deep new probe into the interface between these two theories, using ultra-high energy neutrino ...
Ph.D. student earns Department of Defense scholarship
Nolan Gutierrez, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, has received a prestigious Science, Mathematics and Research for ...
Committee for Greater Hobart launches campaign for new regional master plan
It is aiming to use research and engagement to inform better decision ... while directors include University of Tasmania (UTAS) Vice-Chancellor Rufus Black, KPMG chairman Paul Green, Colony47 CEO ...

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University of Tasmania (UTAS) Discovery

Discovering the Mysteries of the Arctic
On Sept. 1, 2023, a team of researchers and scientists embarked on a journey from Kodiak, Alaska, to Tromsø, Norway, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (USCGC Healy), the largest and most ...
Defence called on for potential airdrop supply mission to Antarctic expeditioners after icebreaker's cargo cranes fail
A Senate inquiry has heard the Department of Defence has been enlisted to potentially deliver supplies, including much-needed coffee, to Mawson Station after an earlier resupply voyage was disrupted ...
Breaking ice, and helicopter drops: winning photos of working scientists
Nature’s annual photography competition attracted stunning images from around the world, including two very different shots featuring the Polarstern research vessel.
Scientists have captured the world's first ever X-ray of a single atom in remarkable discovery
The team inserted each individual atom into 'respective molecular hosts'. To detect the X-ray signal of one atom, the team supplemented 'conventional detectors in X-rays with a specialized detectors ...