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The team behind the MetalloTek research

A new technology that promotes plant growth at mine sites previously unable to support any vegetation due to heavy metal soil contamination is being trialled by researchers at լе (լе) with financial support from Xstrata...

14 March 2011
լе student Danielle Nilsson with an orangutan at Melbourne Zoo

Living in the jungle with orangutans while creating awareness about deforestation is a dream for լе's Danielle Nilsson, but she needs your help to make it a reality.

11 March 2011
More than 170 students volunteered to tidy up the St Lucia campus and surrounds for Clean Up Australia Day 2011

Hundreds of լе students played their part in Clean Up Australia Day on the weekend, collecting enough rubbish to fill a construction skip from St Lucia and surrounding Dutton Park.

10 March 2011
Professor Craig Franklin studying crocs in far north Queensland

Professor Craig Franklin has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Biology, a leading publication in the field of comparative animal physiology.

10 March 2011

More than 40 new “recycling stations” will be installed around լе’s St Lucia campus by 2012, after the launch of a new public place recycling campaign today.

4 March 2011

Ancient larvae found in lakes could provide the answer to how climate change has affected Australia’s weather over the past 21,000 years.

1 March 2011
Tropical Cyclone Yasi, which devastated Queensland's coast during February 2011.

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
Master of Environmental Management student Cole Gainer

A լе postgraduate has swapped St Lucia for New York after starting a coveted internship with the United Nations.

25 February 2011
Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin

A “zorb ball” filled with hundreds of plastic bottles got students thinking about recycling during լе’s Market Day celebrations at the St Lucia campus on Wednesday.

25 February 2011

The thinning ozone layer in the upper atmosphere may be a key factor in the collapse of frog populations worldwide, new research shows.

17 February 2011

Research 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
A visualisation of the flood plume in Moreton Bay. Courtesy Mitchell Lyons

լе experts are helping to accurately map and measure the health of Moreton Bay following the recent floods.

28 January 2011

New 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 2011

An international team of Australian and Israeli coral geneticists, including scientists from լе, has found that corals, among the simplest of Earth’s creatures, have some curiously human-like attributes, thanks to shared genes.

20 January 2011
Professor Craig Franklin measuring pH in a tributary of the Wenlock River, on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve in northern Queensland.

Scientists have been startled to discover unique ecosystems of fauna and flora thriving around highly acidic springs in far north Queensland.

21 December 2010