Tell your story about the Townsville floods in 2019
NEWS: The Flood Stories web site now has a playlist of the interviews that were recorded in July 2019. I would like to thank everyone that contributed. As part of […]
Tag Archives: Environment and sustainability
Housing in northern Australia
Housing Design across Australia needs to take account of the local climate and be based on sustainable features for that climate. Cairns Architect Roger Mainwood and Lisa Law from […]
![By dronepicr (Koala bear with a child) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://writenq.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/koala_bear_with_a_child.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
The Koala and the Eucalyptus
Listen to an interview with Murray Logan who spent many nights on Magnetic Island in north Queensland finding koalas to help with research on their habitat use and home ranges. […]
Megafauna – northern Australia threats
Professor Helene Marsh from James Cook University has been studying marine megafauna like dugongs and turtles in northern Australia for decades. She says our ability to conserve mobile animals relies […]
Food – Too good to waste
You can find Food Rescue Townsville on Facebook
Learning Curves for Smart Cities
Smart Cities are the way of the future, but like all new things, there are traps along the way to be avoided. Barometer’s Kate Osborne speaks with Professor Marcus Foth […]
Australian flake fisheries; a bright spot in a gloomy world?
Professor Colin Simpfendorfer from James Cook University
spoke with Kate Osborne about his research on bright spots for sharks globally.
Image: Colin Simpfendorfer
