Recent news in Science and Engineering

New climate change threat to tropical rainforests
Tue, 21 Jun 2022
A team from James Cook University and SkyRail in northern Australia has found climate change is boosting the flowering and fruiting of woody vines, or lianas in the Australian Wet Tropics, with potentially serious implications for rain forests as the tree-strangling parasites thrive.

Algae can help protect coral reefs – but it’s all in the timing
Fri, 17 Jun 2022
Scientists have found macroalgae (seaweed) can help protect some corals from bleaching, and the removal of the canopy-forming seaweed should be carefully timed to help coral reefs thrive.

Citizen scientists getting it right
Thu, 16 Jun 2022
Researchers say volunteer ‘citizen scientists’ have proven just as reliable as professional scientists in collecting basic data and may be a valuable resource for monitoring change in marine environments.

Nature-based tourism benefits may be unfair
Fri, 10 Jun 2022
James Cook University researchers studying tourism in nature reserves around the world say the tourism industry’s benefits usually go to individuals but its costs are borne by local communities.

Turtles, dugongs in danger from seagrass loss
Thu, 19 May 2022
Large-scale monitoring of seagrass meadows across Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Strait reveals there’s almost no seagrass remaining across most of previously mapped areas.

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