Recent news in Science and Engineering

Dramatic loss of globe’s wetlands
Fri, 13 May 2022
Researchers analysing more than one-million satellite images have discovered 4,000 square kilometres of tidal wetlands have been lost globally over twenty years – but ecosystem restoration and natural processes are playing a part in reducing total losses.

AI sediment prediction tool a ‘world first’ for Reef
Wed, 11 May 2022
In a world first, scientists will be able to use artificial intelligence to accurately predict sediment distribution on the Great Barrier Reef in the fight to protect it.

Tropical scientists deliver a ‘World-first’ in Scotland
Mon, 9 May 2022
The Great Barrier Reef and the peat bogs of Scotland are almost a world apart, but two Townsville scientists have played an important role in assessing the impacts of climate change in an area being nominated for World Heritage listing.

Long lost ‘bum-breathing’ turtle makes its return
Thu, 5 May 2022
A revolutionary new DNA detection method has helped rediscover an iconic species of turtle last seen more than 25 years ago in a northern Queensland river.

The future of food from the warming sea
Thu, 28 Apr 2022
Scientists believe expanding marine aquaculture (or mariculture) will be a vital step in feeding the billions of extra people expected to populate the globe by the end of the century.

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