Every aspect of life on Earth has already been impacted by global changes in temperature from human-induced climate change according to a new international study involving researchers from The University of Queensland.
10 November 2016A new scientific study is reconstructing long-term data on fish catches using fishers’ memories to reveal how their rewards have declined over the past 50 years.
23 June 2016The timing of significant Great Barrier Reef coral loss captured by a series of historical photos has been accurately determined for the first time by a University of Queensland)-led study.
9 February 2016Queensland 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 2014John Pandolfi keeps his optimism alive despite the grim scientific evidence he confronts daily that the world’s coral reefs are in a lot of trouble – along with 81 nations and 500 million people who depend on them.
10 July 2012Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned.
4 November 2011Climate change and acidifying ocean water are likely to have a highly variable impact on the world’s coral reefs in space, time and diversity, according to an international team of coral scientists, including UQ researchers.
21 July 2011Leading scientists and marine managers have called for a greater national effort to protect vital 1000-kilometre stretches in the middle of Australia’s eastern and western coastlines.
22 November 2010