Category: Nature & Environment

Your shutter might only be open for a few seconds but your pictures could help Protect Rainforests Forever.

Timber pile fields will help to protect the Mossman River and two of its bridges during the wet season. Flood-damaged riverbanks at Foxton Bridge and Anich’s Bridge in Mossman have been repaired using pile field structures, bringing a new approach to erosion solutions to the Far North.

LIZARD Island has received its first delivery of Coral IVF babies with nearly 10 million coral larvae released across four of the local reef locations under the Federal government funded Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.

Lowland Tropical Rainforest of the Wet Tropics Officially Declared as Endangered

Cairns Hospital has recorded nearly 400 cases of melioidosis in the past two decades, with more than double the amount of cases in the last few years. A new study has found that urban expansion may have contributed to the rise in cases of the dangerous soil-borne disease.

Douglas News Network’s editor, Andre Leu, will be speaking shortly at the High-Level Segment of the “4 per 1000” Initiative at the COP26 Science Day being held in Glasgow. Andre was an original signatory (signature No.7) of the International Agreement at the Paris Climate Change meeting in December 2015.

The claims that all coconuts (Coco Nucifera L.) were introduced into Australia by Europeans were researched by studying the journals of maritime expeditions, records of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, historical data and published papers.

Will you take the Water Night Challenge?

See if your household can avoid using taps and survive without running water from 12pm to 12am on Thursday 21 October, 2021 during National Water Week.

THE unique tropical Low Isles located on the Great Barrier Reef near Port Douglas has made a global list of the best destination sustainability stories.  

CSIRO researchers have shown a bacteria can successfully sterilise and eradicate the invasive, disease carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito which is responsible for spreading dengue, yellow fever and Zika.