A researcher in PPE doing field work with a possum. The possum is looking out from a hollow log.

Environment and sustainability

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Row of historic mid-rise apartment buildings with red and cream brick facades, featuring decorative stonework and black metal fire escapes, lined along a tree-filled street with yellow-green foliage.
Analysis

‘Forever renting’ is common in New York, California and Europe. What lessons can we learn?

21 May 2026
Several residential rooftops fitted with solar panels in a leafy suburban neighbourhood, with tall trees behind the houses in bright daylight.
Analysis

Free electricity on offer soon – but do Australians know about Solar Sharer?

19 May 2026
A collage Australia's parliament house, Australian currency and UQ's Great Court cloisters. Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers is in the foreground.
Feature

Federal budget 2026: UQ experts available

11 May 2026
an aerial view of a forest with an adjacent area of bare earth and a town on the coast

Biodiversity costs of clean energy’s nickel rush modelled in global study

7 May 2026
A plate of unfinished food is scraped into a garbage bin.

Research from real kitchens the key to stopping food waste

29 April 2026
a blue tray holding narrow glass tubes with one grassy plant growing out of each of them

Future food needs new underground strategy

17 April 2026
Crops in the Brassicaceae family had strong ‘phytomining’ potential

Leafy vegetables identified as potential metal mining tools

13 April 2026
Early morning traffic on the Riverside Expressway in Brisbane
Analysis

Should the government encourage people to work from home to save fuel?

8 April 2026
A map of Australia showing the varying levels of ecosystem disturbance.

Map shows scale of ecosystem disturbance across Australia

2 April 2026
a clump of four cream flowers with thin and spiky long petals

Quantity not quality: Australia’s conservation expansion is failing biodiversity

24 March 2026