Global warming and acidifying oceans are creating an intense competition between coral and algae that both are set to lose.
18 March 2019New research has revealed that human threats – like hunting and land clearing – are severely limiting the areas in which species can survive.
13 March 2019Gene-editing sugarcane for use in renewable energy and bio-plastics could help secure the industry’s future.
11 March 2019Researchers have identified a matrix of risks that the mining industry must overcome to unlock vitally important copper reserves.
6 March 2019A stocktake of Australia’s animal havens – conservation areas free of cats and foxes – has found that they have already prevented 13 mammal extinctions.
5 March 2019Research has revealed some large whale populations have defied over-exploitation and near-extinction to reach ‘peak’ abundance – or will do so early in the next decade.
4 March 2019Õ¬Äе¼º½ has jumped to the top of the national table in Agriculture and Forestry, and it also ranks first in Australia for Environmental Sciences and Sports-Related Subjects, according to the latest international rankings survey.
28 February 2019Australia’s world-leading expertise in small-scale mining is being showcased to 30 emerging leaders from the African mining sector as they visit the Gladstone and Emerald regions in Central Queensland.
26 February 2019A new process turning waste glass into everyday products could save tens of millions of tonnes of glass from going to landfill every year.
22 February 2019Research has shown that invasive or pest species are a major problem for four out of five Australian threatened species, with rabbits, feral pigs and cats among the most destructive.
20 February 2019The future of the bilby, one of Australia’s threatened species could be secured with the help of University of Queensland researchers.
11 February 2019A trial of ways to cool turtle nests is underway in Queensland’s Far North as global warming threatens turtle populations throughout the tropics.
11 February 2019Corals lurking in deeper, darker waters could one day help to replenish shallow water reefs under threat from ocean warming and bleaching events, according to researchers.
6 February 2019The top 100 Australian plant species at risk of extinction have been identified by Threatened Species Recovery Hub research.
31 January 2019An endangered Queensland bird is at risk of extinction because environmental legislation is failing to protect its habitat, according to a University of Queensland-led study.
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