Energy, water and resources

How �첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

uqccla15 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:42:56 +0000

19 December 2024In the race towards Net Zero 2050, every discovery helps. But this breakthrough could revolutionise energy production and waste consumption. This is how it occurred.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Designing technology for tomorrow

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:48 +0000

20 May 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

uqccla15 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:46:32 +0000

21 July 2023Australia will need to speed up and broaden its decarbonisation efforts to achieve net zero by 2050, according to the final report of the Net Zero Australia project.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

The real cost of your chocolate habit

uqccla15 — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:10:05 +0000

20 June 2023New research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa’s forests.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Unpacking the 2023 federal budget

uqccla15 — Fri, 12 May 2023 04:45:26 +0000

12 May 2023Our experts explain what the federal budget means for you.

Agribusiness

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Social understanding

Here are 10 policies to combat our housing crisis

uqccla15 — Tue, 09 May 2023 22:53:37 +0000

10 May 2023The current public debate about housing is focused on “silver bullet” solutions. What is needed instead is a comprehensive package of bold interventions, says �첥ɫ��Ƭ Urban Planning Associate Professor Dr Dorina Pojani.

Energy, water and resources

Social understanding

Addressing the challenge of water scarcity in Chile

uqccla15 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:25:41 +0000

2 March 2023Rainfall in Central Chile has dropped by a third in the past decade. It's a major climate issue that needs urgent attention, and SMI's researchers believe they have a solution.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

The desert lab and its spinifex secrets

uqccla15 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:54:04 +0000

1 February 2023A new desert-based laboratory has tapped into traditional knowledge to develop nanomaterials from spinifex.

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Sowing seeds of support

uqccla15 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:48:50 +0000

20 January 2023When COVID-19 and extreme weather events wreaked havoc on global supply chains, it was small-scale local food systems that proved to be more resilient. If we want a future that sustains the world, we must learn to serve nature first.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

�첥ɫ��Ƭ research to revolutionise pest control around the world

uqccla15 — Mon, 16 May 2022 21:44:56 +0000

17 May 2022Our scientists have developed an environmentally friendly spray which could prove to be a game-changer for the agricultural industry.

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

What’s fuelling the surge in petrol prices?

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:08:57 +0000

31 March 2022�첥ɫ��Ƭ experts explain the soaring prices at the pump, the history of energy wars in Australia and options for a secure energy future.

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Social understanding

How wastewater analysis helped stop the spread of COVID-19

uqccla15 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:42:22 +0000

2 March 2022Analysis of Queensland's wastewater became a valuable tool during the peak of COVID-19. But how exactly did this help us overcome a pandemic?

COVID-19

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Predictive agriculture: The art of understanding uncertainty

uqccla15 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:26:50 +0000

3 November 2021“What we try to do as scientists is provide a whole series of tools that help plant breeders make better predictions about how to design a new variety that will work on that farm or work in that particular environment."

Agribusiness

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Energy, water and resources

Social understanding

Food systems and the bioeconomy

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:54:41 +0000

13 September 2021Modern food systems must take into consideration the complexities of sustainably producing nutritious food while reducing the use of increasingly scarce and fragile resources to meet the needs of consumers, writes Professor Matthew Morell.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

The world’s favourite fruit needs a genetic boost

uqccla15 — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 02:54:07 +0000

23 July 2021The Cavendish variety of banana is under threat from a range of fungal diseases, writes �첥ɫ��Ƭ's Professor André Drenth.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Net zero by 2050? This is how

uqrwestb — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 06:03:41 +0000

2 July 2021When Dr Chris Greig was approached by Princeton University to help conduct a world-leading study into achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, he had no idea of how impactful his work would become.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Supporting sustainable fisheries

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:42:44 +0000

13 March 2019The expertise of a specialist group of �첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers is helping influence policies that are protecting Queensland’s fisheries – a vital natural resource that contributes nearly $600 million each year to Queensland’s economy.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Energy and the forgotten millions

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:00:00 +0000

23 January 2019A group of �첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers are working to solve the crucial energy challenges facing our developing regions – discovering solutions and driving changes that could help save millions of lives.

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Safeguarding our future food supply

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 02:07:54 +0000

10 September 2018To celebrate Research Week 2018, �첥ɫ��Ƭ is proud to share how �첥ɫ��Ƭ research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Find out how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to protect our future food supply.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Fuelling the future

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 06:07:39 +0000

6 January 2018�첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers are harnessing the sun's energy through photosynthesis to find innovative replacements for finite fossil-fuels.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Impact

Resourcing the future

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:33:33 +0000

10 October 2019�첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers are helping ensure sustainable access to vital resources now and in the future.

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Mysterious ‘quantum dots’ to revolutionise solar energy

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:25:35 +0000

18 February 2020�첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers are harnessing the quantum realm to create solar cells that may appear in the unlikeliest of places.

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Save our sewers

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 04:28:08 +0000

2 January 2018�첥ɫ��Ƭ sewer corrosion and odour research has revolutionised sewer management practice in Australia and will have an enduring effect on the worldwide water industry – its impact is mammoth, with documented savings to date already amounting to $400 million.

Energy, water and resources

Impact

Queensland Science making a difference

uqsoutra — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:25:07 +0000

13 October 2020WATCH: Discover how �첥ɫ��Ƭ researchers are contributing to some of the biggest challenges the world faces – the health of our communities, and environments; the quality and quantity of food available; abundant clean energy; and sustainable economies.

Agribusiness

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health