A research organisation that comprises Australia’s top water experts has welcomed a Federal Government plan to make cities greener and cooler.

20 January 2016
The iron industry.

Brazilian steel industry strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have failed spectacularly, actually resulting in a doubling of emissions, University of Queensland research has found.

11 February 2015
Above: Nineteenth century recreational fishers would regularly catch hundreds of fish off the coast of Queensland, often in just a few hours of fishing (Photo: T. Welsby, 1905)

Queensland scientists delving into newspaper archives have discovered that catch rates for Queensland’s pink snapper fishery have declined almost 90 per cent, since the nineteenth century.

17 November 2014
The Queensland node of the centre will be led by Professor Graeme Hammer from UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.

Queensland scientists will play a key role in a new Australian research centre working to increase major food crop yields. University of Queensland researchers will form the Queensland node of the $22 million Australian Research Council Centre of...

24 October 2014
An artist's impression of the solar research facility at UQ Gatton on completion. Image: Wilson Architects

The University of Queensland and First Solar have begun construction on a 3.275 megawatt solar photovoltaic research facility at UQ’s Gatton campus.

6 August 2014

The recent earthquake which has devastated Japan could also have serious consequences for Australia’s energy exports to the region, according to UQ economist Dr Liam Wagner.

15 March 2011

The thought of powering your house on banana waste may sound a little unrealistic, but UQ researcher, Associate Professor Bill Clarke, proved it was a possibility two years ago.

14 January 2008

The University of Queensland’s Dr Bill Clarke, is assessing the potential of bananas as an alternative energy source for North Queensland.

23 August 2004

A mining website on hazard and risk management from mineral processing to quarrying, has been launched by The University of Queensland’s mining safety centre.

4 June 2004