Disruptive technologies, climate change, robotics, natural resource limitations, renewable energy, the sharing economy, the cloud, big data and ageing populations are just some of the…

In a first for Australian universities, the University of Sydney has announced it will substantially reduce the carbon footprint of its listed share portfolio over…

Researchers from James Cook University have found a fragment of Australia beneath Vanuatu—and it may cause a rethink on how continents are built. Geologists thought…

Macquarie University climate change scientist Professor Lesley Hughes is the winner of the 2014 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research….

More than 25 million kilometres of new roads will be built worldwide by 2050. Many of these roads will slice into Earth’s last wildernesses, where…

Thai city planners will take their cues from University of Queensland experts, after a team of 29 city administrators from Bangkok visited Brisbane to discuss urban…

Australian scientists are studying how plants worldwide will respond to more extreme rainfall in a future affected by climate change. They report that impacts will…

A two-decade study of carbon storage changes within North American forests provides new evidence of the direct impact of climate change on ecosystem function, opening questions…

Plastics choke our marine life—but is the message getting through? A new James Cook University project is helping assess whether we are winning the war on…

In 2010, a tsunami generated by an earthquake in Chile led to much of Australia’s east coast being put on a tsunami alert. “The detection…