The skeptics who frequently deny the reality of climate change in the world’s media lack all scientific credibility, charge three eminent Australian researchers who have just been listed among the world’s 20 most influential scientists in the field...

9 April 2010

UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.

9 April 2010
Biofuels researcher and Eisenhower Fellow Associate Professor Ben Hankamer

A University of Queensland researcher has met with US political and business leaders to fast-track biofuel development after winning a top international fellowship.

9 April 2010
A cassowary tagged with a GPS at Etty Bay in north Queensland. Photo courtesy Hamish Campbell

Queenslanders are being encouraged to lend their iPhones to science, in a new initiative to uncover the behaviour of one of the states most elusive birds – the cassowary.

8 April 2010

Distinguished ARC Laureate Fellow and eminent Pew Fellow, Professor Peter J Mumby has been appointed to a newly created position as Professor in UQ's School of Biological Sciences from April 1, 2010.

31 March 2010

The rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world’s oceans, international marine scientists warned today.

28 March 2010

UQ will host university, government and industry delegates from around the nation this week at a workshop aimed at accelerating the take-up of geothermal energy in Australia.

16 March 2010
Security Officer Michael Malcolm switches off

The University of Queensland will switch on to Earth Hour by switching off on Saturday, March 27.

15 March 2010

Provocative author Clive Hamilton will discuss his new book “Requiem for a Species” in a public lecture this month hosted by the newly established Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland.

12 March 2010

A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.

10 March 2010

A visionary philanthropist will donate 15 million dollars towards a sustainable building to house a new University of Queensland institute that will target solutions for problems linked to global-scale change.

10 March 2010

Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today’s human activity.

26 February 2010
An example of deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

How much does it really cost to stop deforestation?

26 February 2010

The general public are being asked to get involved in saving the koala or face a future without Queensland’s faunal emblem.

24 February 2010

UQ research has found being a copycat works out pretty well for a certain reef fish.

23 February 2010

An international research team including experts from The University of Queensland has looked to cleaner fish to appreciate how humans may have evolved to punish free-loaders.

5 January 2010