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
The University of Queensland will switch on to Earth Hour by switching off on Saturday, March 27.
15 March 2010Provocative author Clive Hamilton will discuss his new book “Requiem for a Species” in a public lecture this month hosted by the newly established Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland.
12 March 2010A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.
10 March 2010A visionary philanthropist will donate 15 million dollars towards a sustainable building to house a new University of Queensland institute that will target solutions for problems linked to global-scale change.
10 March 2010Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today’s human activity.
26 February 2010
How much does it really cost to stop deforestation?
26 February 2010The general public are being asked to get involved in saving the koala or face a future without Queensland’s faunal emblem.
24 February 2010UQ research has found being a copycat works out pretty well for a certain reef fish.
23 February 2010An international research team including experts from The University of Queensland has looked to cleaner fish to appreciate how humans may have evolved to punish free-loaders.
5 January 2010The 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 2008A joint project between UQ and Foster’s to turn beer wastewater into electricity has won $140,000 from the Queensland Government’s Sustainable Energy Innovation Fund.
2 May 2007Australian scientists who contributed to the latest global greenhouse study say the Great Barrier Reef is one of the nation’s great assets most at risk under climate change.
6 April 2007Algae and nutrients from sewage and grey water runoff can stir up more trouble for polluted waterways, according to new Brisbane research.
16 May 2005The University of Queensland’s Dr Bill Clarke, is assessing the potential of bananas as an alternative energy source for North Queensland.
23 August 2004University of Queensland researchers have discovered a new and unusual organism living in a delicate part of the male koala's anatomy.
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