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Environment SA News

Urban heat map of Golden Grove, with and without thermal dataset overlay.
Adelaide heat mapping website now live

15 February 2019

A new heat mapping tool is now publicly available to see how surface temperatures change across metropolitan SA.

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Your guide to visiting the revamped Naracoorte Caves

15 February 2019

Ready to tick another thing off your SA bucket list? Here are four fabulous reasons to visit Naracoorte Caves.

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We acknowledge and respect the Traditional Custodians whose ancestral lands we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

We also pay our respects to the cultural authority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their nations in South Australia, as well as those across Australia.

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