Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
‘Stealth privatisation’ in national parks threatens mental health boosts
Research shows productivity gains of up to 11% for people who visit protected parks in Australia at least once a month.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Decreasing backyard bird diversity flies under the radar
'Common' Aussie bird species experiencing declines in prevalence in urban areas.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Elephant tweets highlight divide on conservation issues
Social media analysis highlights major threats to elephant conservation overshadowed.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Bat urine reveals extended range for new Hendra virus variant
Griffith University researchers have discovered a new Hendra virus variant that may pass to horses and humans much more widely across Australia than previously known.
Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution
Ancient hand grenades: explosive weapons in medieval Jerusalem during Crusades
New analysis of residue reveals 11th-12th century ceramic vessels contained explosive material.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
On the countdown: citizen scientists fight to save species
Citizens join scientists to survey South-Eastern Glossy Black Cockatoos following 2019/2020 bushfires.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Why COP26 fell so far short of expectations
Griffith University academics unpacked what was achieved at the Glasgow climate change summit and whether COP26 was failure.
Architecture, construction and planning
2021 Vice Chancellor’s Gala Award winners celebrated
Griffith has recognised its best and brightest researchers, professional and support staff plus teaching excellence at a gala event in Brisbane.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Advance Queensland Fellowships glimpse the future
Three Griffith University researchers have been awarded Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships
Biodiversity
New Griffith-backed alliance to deliver sustainable climate-ready national economy
An alliance of business leaders, industry and community groups has committed to a five-year collaboration to plan and deliver a sustainable economic transformation for the nation.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
EcoCommons – mapping the future in environmentally challenging times
Griffith University is driving the construction of EcoCommons, a world-first collaborative platform for analysing and modelling ecological and environmental challenges.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Are humpback whales good bioindicators of Antarctic mercury pollution?
A Griffith University-led study has provided the first evidence of mercury accumulation in humpback whales foraging in the Southern Ocean.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Communicating deforestation a focus for PhD candidate
A Griffith University doctoral researcher will receive the prestigious Crawford Fund Student Award 2021 for a communications plan to positively influence sustainable soy farming in Brazil.
Arts Education Law
Amy gets to the core of quality in dietetics to win Griffith 3MT final
Communicating a thesis on complex adaptive systems theory in just three minutes is no simple task, but Amy Kirkegaard did it in style to win the Griffith Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Friday.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Climate change to increase deadwood decomposition globally
Climate change could increase the release of greenhouse gases from insect driven forest decay a new study has found.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Research unveils the blight attacking Australian chickpeas
Griffith University-led research is discovering the genetic diversity of Chickpea/Ascochyta Blight, the major pathogen threat to Australia’s billion-dollar chickpea industry.
Australian Rivers Institute
All-in-one tool streamlines molecular weight analysis
World-first method streamlines process of identifying structure and molecular weight of compounds.
Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
Wildlife trade bans not the only option to reduce pandemic risk
New Griffith University-led research suggests that existing systems for food safety, rather than broad, untargeted bans on wildlife trade are key to preventing the next pandemic. Published in Lancet Planetary Health, with co-authors from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Wildlife Health Specialist Group and TRAFFIC, an NGO focused on wildlife trade. The research, led by Dr Duan Biggs from the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security argues that a solution […]