SA Water Liveability Co-ordinator Alex Czura and Environmental Opportunities manager Greg Ingleton (right) install an air temperature sensor in an Adelaide park.

Environment

Green solution to lowering urban temperatures during summer

Keeping suburban parks green year-round can lower city temperatures by up to 12 degrees celsius during summer heatwaves, an Australian study has found.

Environment

Seeds banked in United Kingdom to aid Aussie bushfire recovery

Rare pea seeds are being flown back from a British bank to save a species from extinction in South Australia.

Primary Industries

Weeding out global threat to crops

Ag leaders are being warned about the growing weed invasion threatening global food security, in new research from South Australia.

Environment

Glenelg to host South Australia’s second major shellfish reef

Work on a native shellfish reef off the Adelaide coastline is expected to begin in September after Glenelg was announced as the location this week.

Environment

Solar farm construction method to reduce dust and save ‘bonsai forest’

A new technique to preserve native vegetation and reduce dust is being rolled out during construction of a solar farm in South Australia.