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
Floods, cyclones and severe storms have devastated much of Queensland in the space of a few short months and many people are now questioning whether this is a result of climate change.
28 February 2011
A UQ postgraduate has swapped St Lucia for New York after starting a coveted internship with the United Nations.
25 February 2011
A “zorb ball” filled with hundreds of plastic bottles got students thinking about recycling during The University of Queensland’s Market Day celebrations at the St Lucia campus on Wednesday.
25 February 2011The thinning ozone layer in the upper atmosphere may be a key factor in the collapse of frog populations worldwide, new research shows.
17 February 2011Research into submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean will lay the groundwork for scientists to map the Earth as it was millions of years ago.
14 February 2011
UQ experts are helping to accurately map and measure the health of Moreton Bay following the recent floods.
28 January 2011New research on how sharks see may help to prevent attacks on humans and assist in the design of fishing gear that may reduce shark bycatch in long-line fisheries.
25 January 2011An 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
Scientists have been startled to discover unique ecosystems of fauna and flora thriving around highly acidic springs in far north Queensland.
21 December 2010
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
UQ’s bike racks are soon-to-become the most sought after parking spots on campus, thanks to a design competition run through UQ’s Property and Facilities Division (P&F) recently.
16 December 2010
The commute to and from UQ St Lucia has been made a little easier, with a go card fare machine switched on at the Chancellor’s Place bus stop this morning.
13 December 2010
For Paraguayan rockstar Norman Rieder, arriving at the Gatton campus as an international student was a bit of a culture shock.
10 December 2010
In a world first, a new ‘state of the art’ climate change experimental facility has been completed at the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Heron Island Research Station.
7 December 2010The environmental scientist whose work on dioxins last year prompted governments around the world to suspend the use of some pesticides says there is more to the problem and authorities need to act urgently.
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