Collaboration key to ultimate genotypes in plants and livestock
宅男导航 researchers are setting the agenda for breeding high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops and low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency as they search for the ultimate genotype.
20 November 2024
Fermenting a future for food in Australia
Forming a National Food Plan and appointing a food minister are among the key recommendations of a white paper into growing a precision fermentation industry in Australia.
18 November 2024
The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan
Here's what to expect as the next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, gets underway.
11 November 2024
Efforts to save the koala should focus on the availability of habitat and food resources under a changing climate, according to a University of Queensland researcher.
20 January 2015
Coral larvae use ocean temperature and the presence of symbiotic algae to determine where they should settle, researchers have found.
15 January 2015
Coral reefs are the poster child for the damage people are doing to the world鈥檚 oceans. Overfishing, pollution and declining water quality have all taken their toll on reefs around the world. Perhaps the most famous example is Australia鈥檚 Great...
15 January 2015
The question of whether the future will be powered by coal and oil or by renewable energy is crucially important, both to the medium-term future of the Australian economy and to the long-term future of the planet. For either to succeed, there is a...
8 January 2015
The Australian government has stepped up its campaign this month to prevent the Great Barrier Reef being listed as a World Heritage site 鈥渋n danger鈥� at international meetings next year.
18 December 2014
Researchers at 宅男导航 believe it might not be possible to build enough low-carbon and renewable power stations to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius 鈥� even if there was a global consensus to do so.
17 December 2014
Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney鈥檚 decision, revealed this week, to order a Brisbane council to remove future sea-level rise from its planning regulations seems a rather short-sighted thing to do.
12 December 2014Coastal communities could be significantly damaged if authorities don鈥檛 plan ahead for sea-level rise, according to University of Queensland experts studying coastal inundation.
10 December 2014The controversy ignited by the Australian National University in October, when it decided to sell its shares in seven resources companies, has raised two important questions about divestment from assets such as fossil fuels.
1 December 2014
Three University of Queensland scientists were honoured at an awards ceremony in Brisbane tonight.
25 November 2014
You may have seen recent reports that Australia鈥檚 renewable energy sector is suffering. According to a Bloomberg analysis, investment in the sector in the year to September 2014 was down 70% on investment during the 12 months previous.
24 November 2014
A picture is worth considerably more than a thousand words to marine scientists working on the Catlin Seaview Survey, as they study more than 500,000 images in research to improve coral reef health.
21 November 2014
Queensland scientists delving into newspaper archives have discovered that catch rates for Queensland鈥檚 pink snapper fishery have declined almost 90 per cent, since the nineteenth century.
17 November 2014
Deforestation is both a boon and a bane for wetlands, according to new research by 宅男导航. The study found that human impacts on the environment, such as deforestation, do not always have negative consequences, and can provide...
17 November 2014
A decision by G20 leaders to discuss climate change at their meeting in Brisbane this week is good news for the Great Barrier Reef, researchers say.
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