Tagged with Natural and Built Environment

Finding rancid prawns and twelve week old cheese in restaurant fridges is all in a day’s work for Courtney King, but luckily she says she has a cast iron stomach. Finding rancid prawns and twelve week old cheese in restaurant fridges is all in a day’s work for Courtney King, but luckily she says she […]

The development of an anti-infective agent and also an analgesic pain relief from an Aboriginal plant remedy are just two of the potential drugs that Professor Quinn has discovered by extracting compounds from native species such as sponges and plants. Professor Quinn, director of Griffith’s Eskitis Institute, began his program of biodiscovery work at Griffith […]

Griffith University ecologists have published a review of the human and biological communities of wadis, arroyos, gulches, washes, and other intermittent flows. In the May issue of ESA’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they contend that dry river ecology is under-researched and under-appreciated. ‘When the River Runs Dry’ is a familiar song in […]

A tripling in BeachCare volunteers, a new partnership with the Gold Coast TAFE and litter pick-ups to help keep the beach clean. These are just some of the many success stories that have developed since the Gold Coast’s Tallebudgera Beach was named the winner of the Keep Australia Clean Beaches Award in May last year. […]

After the big wet, spare a thought for the health of our waterways and the substances that wash into them. This is the call from Professor Peter Pollard from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute, who has been researching the health of our urban creeks and rivers and the role that microbes, such as bacteria, play […]

Hosted by the National Water Commission which has funded the four year research through its Raising National Water Standards Program, the event “Highs and lows of river and wetland health” coincides with International World Water Day on Thursday March 22. The Canberra seminar will feature a research study by ARI’s Professor Angela Arthington which aims […]

Contributing to a sustainable world with the development of hollow power poles has been the goal for Griffith’s Dr Benoit Gilbert and Ian Underhill. The duo from the University’s School of Engineering are celebrating after receiving a $22,000 grant for their groundbreaking forestry research at the Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, […]