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Weather-worn lizards might adapt to new climates
Fri, 15 Jan 2016
James Cook University scientists have found lizards exposed to rain, hail and shine may cope better with extreme weather events predicted as a result of climate change than their fair-weather cousins.

JCU team rate cyclone protection barrier
Mon, 11 Jan 2016
James Cook University researchers have discovered just how much protection locally available plywood provides against cyclone debris.

Missing snakes alive and well
Tue, 22 Dec 2015
Scientists from James Cook University have discovered new populations of two critically endangered species of sea snakes, thought to be extinct until recently, off the coast of Western Australia.It’s the first time the snakes have been spotted alive and healthy since disappearing from their only known habitat on Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea more than fifteen years ago.

Marine debris travels far
Fri, 4 Dec 2015
Rubbish dumped at sea off Townsville will end up on the popular Mission Beach holiday spot, while Cairns’ marine trash goes straight to the exclusive Port Douglas resort – according to new computer modelling by a James Cook University scientist.

JCU team wins innovation award for ‘green’ concrete
Thu, 3 Dec 2015
Research by James Cook University scientists that looks set to drastically reduce the environmental cost of concrete has won a prestigious innovation award.

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