Photo of large coral

Scientists have seen for the first time how corals collaborate with other microscopic life to build and grow.

24 September 2019
Dr Paul Dennis travelled to Antarctica for his research. Photo: Paul Dennis.

Climate change will have a major impact on life in Antarctica this century, according to a landmark study published in Nature Climate Change today.

29 September 2015

Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned.

21 August 2012

Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned.

4 November 2011

Did you scribble on a desk in the Physiology Lecture Theatres at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus sometime in the past 48 years?

31 May 2011

An international team of Australian and Israeli coral geneticists, including scientists from UQ, has found that corals, among the simplest of Earth’s creatures, have some curiously human-like attributes, thanks to shared genes.

20 January 2011
David LaMotte. Image: Johnno Chen

Recent UQ graduate and former Rotary World Peace Fellow David LaMotte has been appointed to a prestigious committee that selects Nobel Peace Prize nominees.

21 December 2010

The Global Change Institute small grant recipients for 2010 have been announced and illustrate the breadth and depth of research activities at The University of Queensland.

22 November 2010