Of Sultans and Spice
5 Dec 2024A story of war, community, greed, death and discovery.
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Horticulture
Peat was historically mined overseas because it burns so well. But Australia’s subtropical peat bogs need fire to survive
4 Jun 2024Writing for The Conversation, Professor of Ecology Catherine Yule explores an Australian subtropical peatland ecosystem that's thriving because of bushfires.
Spider venom to be developed into insecticide against locusts
9 May 2024A University of the Sunshine Coast researcher is using arachnid venom to help farmers fight locusts, after being awarded a $240,000 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship.
Design finalists show seaweed fashion to Big Apple
1 Dec 2023A recyclable seaweed fabric to fight fashion waste and a vertical plant growth kit that texts its owner to top up water will put UniSC Design students on the global stage this week.
Attack worm may be new biocontrol weapon
21 Jun 2023A strain of roundworm discovered for the first time in Australian pine plantations during University of the Sunshine Coast-led research could become the timber industry’s latest biocontrol weapon.
Study finds simple, cheap way to use forests to slow global climate change
26 Apr 2023Spending $1.50 per hectare to prune climbing vines from the world’s selectively logged forests could remove 800 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over 30 years, according to new research.
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