Energy, water and resources

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

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

24 June 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

How deep freezing native plants could prevent extinction

uqccla15 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:48:11 +0000

6 November 2023A process similar to that used to store human embryos is being used by scientists to save native Australian plants under threat from the invasive fungus, myrtle rust.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

No boundary: From Brisbane to Perth, Broome and Darwin

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:00:56 +0000

18 September 2023PhD candidate Sukirtha Srivarathan from QAAFI has found that edible halophytes have potential as a bushfoods business opportunity.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

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 ��̽�� Urban Planning Associate Professor Dr Dorina Pojani.

Energy, water and resources

Social understanding

Researchers fermenting their way to next-gen jet fuels

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:52:08 +0000

1 May 2023AIBN associate professor Esteban Marcellin and PhD candidate Karen Rodriguez are exploring gas fermentation as a cost-competitive method to decarbonise the aviation industry.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Energy, water and resources

Transforming societies

This problem weed is evolving

uqccla15 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:40:49 +0000

9 March 2023WATCH THE VIDEO: An introduced weed that already costs Australian grain growers more than $90 million a year is becoming an even bigger threat according to University of Queensland-led research.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

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

Many companies not on track to meet Net Zero

uqccla15 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:27:05 +0000

3 November 2022Only one Australian energy company is on track to comply with the Paris Agreement, ��̽�� research has found. A new tool has been created to help other businesses get there.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

��̽�� 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

Meet the Researcher: Dr Lida Omaleki

uqccla15 — Wed, 04 May 2022 00:01:28 +0000

4 May 2022Lida Omaleki is a long way from where she grew up in Iran, but the Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine feels right at home in the University of Queensland labs, where she’s completing important work in support of a healthy, efficient chicken meat industry.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

uqccla15 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:39 +0000

28 April 2022After water, sand is the most exploited natural resource on the planet. But how can we reduce the amount of mineral waste created during its extraction?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Keeping chickens at home: What's the secret to getting the perfect eggs?

uqccla15 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:43:38 +0000

11 April 2022We asked QAAFI's poultry science and animal nutrition experts their top tips on keeping chickens at home.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Social understanding

Is it possible to select cattle for ‘stayability’?

uqccla15 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:15:11 +0000

27 March 2022Lifetime productivity of cows is one of the major drivers of enterprise profitability – however, there is a difference between longevity and lifetime profitability. ��̽��'s Animal Science research team explains.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Meet the food fraud detectives

uqccla15 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:09:13 +0000

6 April 2022Are the meat products you paid top dollar for actually what they are advertised to be? How can you tell? And what about processed, convenience meats such as sausages and patties?

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Bugs in floods - the microbes lurking in mud

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:23:13 +0000

28 March 2022While rising floodwaters pose an immediate danger to human life, disease-causing microbes lurking in those same waters can cause infection and illness well after the waters have peaked and clean-up continues.

Energy, water and resources

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

What’s fuelling the surge in petrol prices?

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

31 March 2022��̽�� 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

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

uqccla15 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:58:35 +0000

2 December 2021Hardy microscopic bacteria are working to turn the red mud by-products from alumina refining into life-sustaining soil.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

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

Plant proteins changing consumer meat demands

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:02:31 +0000

12 October 2021For many people, nothing beats the taste and texture of a big juicy burger, but how do you recreate that eating experience with sustainable plant-based protein?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

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 secret to sorghum’s adaptability

uqccla15 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 23:02:44 +0000

25 August 2021A world-first development of a sorghum pangenome provides unprecedented insights into the genes that makes sorghum such a hardy and resilient crop.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Using DNA to build cattle tick resistance

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:13:29 +0000

15 August 2021A ground-breaking multi-nation study has shown that breeding strong tick resistance into all cattle breeds is feasible, indicating that cattle tick may be much more effectively managed, or even eradicated.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:09:42 +0000

1 August 2021Using technology familiar to computer gamers, University of Queensland scientists are creating ‘digital twins’ of mango and macadamia orchards to help boost food production.

Agribusiness

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Plants that absorb metal could help provide a sustainable future for mining

uqccla15 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:14:50 +0000

12 August 2021Harvesting plants that can absorb metal from the ground may offer a sustainable solution for mining and rehabilitation according to research underway at The University of Queensland.

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

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 ��̽��'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

It’s crystal clear: crushed glass could save our sand

uqccla15 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 03:42:59 +0000

31 May 2021Crushed wine bottles and other recycled glass could replace sand in vital tunnelling supports, cutting construction costs and improving the sustainability of sand mining.

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 ��̽�� 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 ��̽�� 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, ��̽�� is proud to share how ��̽�� 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��̽�� 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��̽�� 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��̽�� 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��̽�� 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

Addressing the challenges of mine waste

uqccla15 — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:45:10 +0000

11 May 2021A new research group at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute has developed a set of toolkits to improve the management of waste in the mining industry.

Energy, water and resources

New program focuses on mining as an agent for change

uqccla15 — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:41:17 +0000

11 May 2021A new strategic program at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute is focusing on a much-neglected aspect of the mining industry to improve sustainability and human development outcomes.

Energy, water and resources

The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy

uqccla15 — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:37:03 +0000

13 May 2021The Morrison government is betting heavily on alternatives that have failed previous tests, such as carbon capture and storage.

Energy, water and resources

Instant rice packs a plastic punch

uqccla15 — Sun, 09 May 2021 22:29:48 +0000

10 May 2021People are consuming three to four milligrams of plastic for every 100 grams of rice they eat, with the number jumping to 13 milligrams per serve for instant rice, according to ��̽�� research.

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Public and allied health

Researchers call for cautious progress in deep sea mining

uqclayt — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 04:23:25 +0000

4 January 2021��̽�� researchers have urged for regulatory caution in a new paper that emphasises just how little is known about the potential impacts of deep sea mining.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Earlier evidence of human rituals and innovation found in ancient rocks

uqclayt — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:17:16 +0000

31 March 2021The discovery of unexpected artefacts in Africa’s Kalahari Basin has challenged conventional knowledge about the beginnings of human culture and innovation.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Social understanding

Queensland Science making a difference

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

13 October 2020WATCH: Discover how ��̽�� 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

Queensland wastewater provides an early-warning system for COVID-19

uqsoutra — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:45:55 +0000

28 September 2020Trips to the toilet are creating an early-warning system that could be a key to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland.

COVID-19

Health and wellbeing

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Renewable energy can save the natural world – but if we're not careful, it will also hurt it

uqsoutra — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:10:55 +0000

2 September 2020A vast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is crucial to slowing climate change. But building solar panels, wind turbines and other renewable energy infrastructure requires mining for materials. If not done responsibly, this may damage species and ecosystems.

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Australian researchers trace sewage for early warning COVID-19 spread

uqsoutra — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:08:48 +0000

16 April 2020Australian researchers have achieved the first step in developing an early warning surveillance system to track COVID-19 prevalence in the community through tracing the presence of the novel coronavirus gene in raw sewage.

COVID-19

Health and wellbeing

Energy, water and resources

Energy, water and resources

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

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

How deep freezing native plants could prevent extinction

No boundary: From Brisbane to Perth, Broome and Darwin

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

The real cost of your chocolate habit

Unpacking the 2023 federal budget

Here are 10 policies to combat our housing crisis

Researchers fermenting their way to next-gen jet fuels

This problem weed is evolving

Addressing the challenge of water scarcity in Chile

The desert lab and its spinifex secrets

Sowing seeds of support

Many companies not on track to meet Net Zero

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

Meet the Researcher: Dr Lida Omaleki

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

Keeping chickens at home: What's the secret to getting the perfect eggs?

Is it possible to select cattle for ‘stayability’?

Meet the food fraud detectives

Bugs in floods - the microbes lurking in mud

What’s fuelling the surge in petrol prices?

How wastewater analysis helped stop the spread of COVID-19

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

Predictive agriculture: The art of understanding uncertainty

Plant proteins changing consumer meat demands

Food systems and the bioeconomy

The secret to sorghum’s adaptability

Using DNA to build cattle tick resistance

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

Plants that absorb metal could help provide a sustainable future for mining

The world’s favourite fruit needs a genetic boost

Net zero by 2050? This is how

It’s crystal clear: crushed glass could save our sand

Supporting sustainable fisheries

Energy and the forgotten millions

Safeguarding our future food supply

Fuelling the future

Resourcing the future

Mysterious ‘quantum dots’ to revolutionise solar energy

Save our sewers

Addressing the challenges of mine waste

New program focuses on mining as an agent for change

The budget should have been a road to Australia’s low-emissions future. Instead, it’s a flight of fancy

Instant rice packs a plastic punch

Researchers call for cautious progress in deep sea mining

Earlier evidence of human rituals and innovation found in ancient rocks

Queensland Science making a difference

Queensland wastewater provides an early-warning system for COVID-19

Renewable energy can save the natural world – but if we're not careful, it will also hurt it

Australian researchers trace sewage for early warning COVID-19 spread

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

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