UQ Dr Rachakonda Sreekar has co-authored a study showing Sumatra's Tapanuli orangutan, the world's rarest great ape, is being pushed toward extinction by combined industrial, agricultural, and climate threats.
UQ's Dr Christopher Lawson argues that as H5N1 bird flu spreads through Australian wildlife, the country's chronically underfunded conservation system must properly support the volunteer carers it's long relied on rather than sideline them.
A team from the UQ-CoralWatch program completed a 9-day journey across regional Queensland, sharing coral reef science to communities hundreds of kilometres from the coast.
University of Queensland researchers have shown that a suite of low-cost, practical measures can significantly reduce the language barriers faced by non-native English speakers at international conferences.
For more than 2 decades, University of Queensland science students have travelled to K'gari (Fraser Island) to learn the fundamentals of field ecology.
Everyone could contribute dramatically more to scientific knowledge if given better recognition, administrative support and funding stability; research has found.
Australian research has shown exposure to intense UV radiation for short periods causes catastrophic DNA damage in tadpoles, potentially contributing to the global decline of frog populations.
One of football's most iconic moments – the penalty shootout – may be far more strategic than previously thought with new research challenging the notion that the team kicking first holds a major advantage.
A University of Queensland researcher has contributed to a landmark global report warning that tens of thousands of plant and fungi species face extinction.
With its rich coastal waters and diverse coral reef habitats, the Henchun Peninsula in southern Taiwan proved the perfect backdrop for the 2026 Asia CoralWatch Ambassador Workshops held earlier this year in May.
The power of AI has been harnessed to rapidly clear a photography bottleneck and bring greater coordination and computing power to efforts to save Australian animals from extinction.
The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors of a much richer and stranger lost world.
When University of Queensland PhD student Emily Flanagan was selected for a national sea-training voyage, she wasn't sure how her research on prawn aquaculture would translate to life at sea.
