Residential gardens are a poor substitute for native bushland and increasing urbanisation is a growing threat when it comes to bees, Curtin University research has found.
By Lucien Wilkinson | Environment; General; Research; Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
Curtin academics have led the production of a world-first standards document to guide the supply and use of native seeds for the ecological restoration of degraded and destroyed natural landscapes.
By Lucien Wilkinson | Environment; Feature; General; Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
Curtin University research has developed a new and easier on-site method to immediately and accurately detect and measure levels of PFAS
By April Kleer | Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and Engineering
Curtin University research has found deep listening or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) could be used as an effective tool to encourage pro-environmental behaviour and create social bonding
By Vanessa Beasley | Research; Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Education; Social sciences
Curtin research has recorded the first known appearance of Pseudoanthidium (Immanthidium) repetitum, the African carder bee, in Western Australia.
By Lucien Wilkinson | Environment; General; Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
A closer look at DNA from south-western Australia’s native Nuytsia floribunda, known as the WA Christmas Tree, has found that temperature, rather than rainfall, impacts the tree’s resilience and repro
By April Kleer | Environment; Research; Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
Curtin research into abnormal regeneration events in lizards has led to the first published scientific review on the prevalence of lizards that have re-generated more than one tail.
By April Kleer | Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
Curtin University researchers have uncovered more information about the numbers and habits of killer whales in south Western Australian waters
By April Kleer | Research; Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics
Novel research into native bee populations by Curtin University provides a best practice recommendation on how to accurately monitor these important insects, with the aim of monitoring and saving bee
By April Kleer | Research; Research Featured; Science and technology; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Science and Engineering
Research from Curtin University has found that pre-historic climate change does not explain the extinction of megafauna in North America at the end of the last Ice Age.
By April Kleer | Research Featured; Agriculture, environment and sustainability; Physical sciences and mathematics; Science and EngineeringCRICOS Provider Code: WA 00301J
