Modern medicine seems to advance with time thanks to research breakthroughs. Hence it’s often thought that further into the past, only simpler medical practices existed. The medical expertise of foraging…
Griffith Celebrates World Food Day
To celebrate World Food Day 2020, an annual awareness day for global food security, we spoke to Griffith University’s expert in local food resilience and contingency, Dr Kimberly Reis. Dr Reis leads Griffith’s Local Food Resilience and Contingency project at the Cities Research Institute. …
Achieving water security in a changing world
A panel discussion presented by the International WaterCentre Achieving water security is fundamental to all sectors of our economy, to the ecosystems in which communities are embedded and to our…
Future Careers in STEM
A panel discussion to explore the forces shaping the future of STEM Careers With the world rapidly adapting in response to the public health pandemic, the effects of globalisation are…
Tasmania’s whale stranding tragedy explained
A desperate rescue effort is underway after hundreds of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) became stranded in Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast. Yesterday, more than 250 pilot whales were reported to…
EVENT: Scientific sovereignty in palaeoanthropology
How contemporary events are exposing systemic inequalities The pandemic of 2020 is wreaking havoc on the scientific enterprise – for palaeoanthropologists, altering everything from where and how we give lectures,…
Sharks, shrimp and seagrass: lessons to inform protection of coastal ecosystem
Sharks, shrimp and seagrass are all valued parts of our coastal ecosystems, but they are also at the centre of conflicts over how people use the coasts. In this talk,…
Bang for buck in urban water security in Brisbane
Since the millennium drought in the mid 2000s, Brisbane has built new major infrastructure, including a water grid, desalination plant, and a now-decommissioned recycled water scheme. The city has also…
After the lockdown: new opportunities and challenges for cities
The COVID-19 health and economic crises affect us not only as individuals but also in terms of the places where we live and work and for most of us, those…
There’s a looming waste crisis from Australia’s solar energy boom
As Australians seek to control rising energy costs and tackle the damaging impacts of climate change, rooftop solar has boomed. To manage the variability of rooftop solar – broadly, the “no power…