Satellites a solution for tracking coral reef health
Satellites orbiting Earth offer great potential to better understand the world’s reefs over time beyond the sites visited by researchers, UQ research has found.
30 April 2025
Packaging up a sustainable future for Australian business
Researchers at Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator have developed a roadmap to help Australian food and beverage businesses shift towards more eco-friendly packaging.
29 April 2025
Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat
Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what’s not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back naturally.
17 April 2025
A UQ study has revealed Australian capital cities are experiencing longer pollen seasons due to climate change.
9 April 2025
New sites for field trials of a UQ strategy to combat Phalaris are needed in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
27 March 2025
Travellers could ‘opt in’ for a lower emissions hotel room and go without single-use shampoo and conditioner, daily towels or room cleaning in an innovative plan by UQ researchers to make tourism more eco-friendly.
25 March 2025
Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus threatening their species.
13 March 2025
A UQ researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia.
12 March 2025
Temporary housing for people displaced by natural disasters could become cheaper, lighter and more sustainable with innovative new timber-cardboard construction panels developed by UQ researchers.
19 February 2025
Mortality rates during heatwaves have been put in the spotlight with research from UQ showing a 20 per cent increase in heatwave-related deaths due to human-induced climate change.
18 February 2025
When it comes to trade in seafood, UQ researchers say Australia's border is like a net full of holes.
18 February 2025
A UQ team has completed one of the most comprehensive surveys of Australia’s subtropical rainforests to document how climate dictates what species thrive in different locations.
17 February 2025
Crocodiles in northern Australia are heating up as the climate warms, with higher body temperatures changing their behaviour.
13 February 2025
Research on Australian volcanoes shows how tiny crystals formed inside volcanoes offer clues about the formation of rare earth deposits and how we can find more of them.
11 February 2025
A UQ-led team has successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a crucial jump towards saving other marsupial species from extinction.
6 February 2025
UQ researchers are shining a light on the link between greenspace exposure and better health in the hope of influencing future urban greening policies.
23 January 2025
The full cost of recovering all of Australia’s threatened animals and plants has been calculated for the first time.
7 January 2025
Monarch butterflies appear to be declining not just in North America but also in Australasia.
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