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Getting smarter for the GBR
Mon, 14 May 2018
JCU’s Internet of Things engineers are partnering with the Cairns Regional Council to develop smarter ways to manage urban stormwater run-off.

World’s rarest ape on the edge of extinction
Fri, 4 May 2018
In a new research article, a team of international researchers argue that the Tapanuli Orangutan—a species discovered last year in Sumatra, Indonesia, and one of the rarest animals on the planet—could lose its battle for survival, unless decisive steps are taken to rescue it.

JCU spreads aquaculture knowledge internationally
Tue, 1 May 2018
Thirty Indonesian delegates are in North Queensland to learn from James Cook University’s aquaculture experts.

Ancestors save tree snakes
Tue, 24 Apr 2018
James Cook University scientists, with collaborators from the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne, may have solved the mystery of why a snake species with no resistance to cane toad toxin has not been wiped out.

Global warming is transforming the Great Barrier Reef
Thu, 19 Apr 2018
A new study published online today in Nature shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016.

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