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’s new outdoor cleaning solution, the ‘Glutton’, is a dust-, noise- and exhaust-free litter vacuum that will reduce the University’s carbon emissions by approximately four tonnes each year.
18 June 2014
Antarctica’s ice-free areas – home to most of the continent’s biodiversity – need better protection from human impact, says a group of Australian environmental scientists.
18 June 2014University of Queensland researchers are working with Colombian ethnic groups to help them influence government policy-making for the mining sector.
10 June 2014
Australia’s wild rice could be the key to global food security, according to The University of Queensland’s leading plant geneticist.
7 June 2014
A bat species native to Papua New Guinea and thought to be extinct has been rediscovered by a team of University of Queensland researchers.
4 June 2014
A joint project between Queensland and Chinese researchers to derive sugars from sorghum could result in extraordinary social, economic and environmental benefits for future generations.
3 June 2014
Recreational hunters are under-utilised as a resource for wildlife management, according to a study from The University of Queensland.
3 June 2014Professor John Foster, Director of The University of Queensland’s Energy Economics and Management Group, is available to comment on electricity changes.
3 June 2014
Research into reef fish species diversity will provide conservationists with new information to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
3 June 2014
A lifelong commitment to sustainable mining has brought recognition for a highly accomplished and long-serving University of Queensland academic, Emeritus Professor Clive L. Bell.
23 May 2014
Queensland marine biologists have found that the damage sustained to a Filipino coral reef from an American warship is more extensive than first thought.
20 May 2014
The accolades continue for The University of Queensland’s newest building, with a prestigious green star rating award from the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) this week.
16 May 2014
Millions of starving people across the globe could benefit from the work of a University of Queensland student.
13 May 2014 with the three new fossil species, represented by their upper jaws-1.jpg?itok=zx7H94rr "New musky rat-kangaroo fossils have been discovered, with the three new fossil species, represented by their upper jaws. Photo courtesy of PanBK.")
The discovery of musky rat-kangaroo fossils has prompted experts to call for better protection of tropical rainforests after new links show the tiny marsupial cannot survive outside that environment.
5 May 2014
The captive elephant population in Laos will be extinct in just over a century if current management practices do not change, a University of Queensland study has found.
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