Category: Nature & Environment

More Queenslanders will be able to camp in the State’s national parks and forests this Easter with the easing of COVID19 restrictions.

Australia has a diversity of unique native coconut phenotypes. These need to be preserved in their preferred habitat, the littoral edge of tropical forests. Currently thousands of coconuts are being actively poisoned or cut down based on the poorly researched belief that they are an invasive species. This has already resulted in irreplaceable loss of unique Australian biodiversity and will result in the extinction of more phenotypes.

Queensland will remain at the forefront of renewable hydrogen with the second round of the Hydrogen Industry Development Fund opening today.

Critical disaster assistance will flow to primary producers in North Queensland impacted by Tropical Cyclone Niran. Disaster relief in the form of financial assistance is…

For the first time ever, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Ocean—and evaluated their risk of extinction.

THERE is a widespread belief that coconuts are not native to Australia and that they were introduced by mariners and the Queensland Acclimatisation Society.

CLEAN UP Australia inspires and empowers communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment. This weekend, the Douglas Shire community will Step Up to Clean Up across three different locations.

THE Bureau of Meteorology has released the latest tropical cyclone advice as tropical cyclone Niran has developed off the north Queensland coast. The cyclone is currently moving slowly northeast, but may drift a little to the west, closer to the coast, on Wednesday.

There are no significant changes to the forecast track nor intensity of the current tropical low with the 2.00pm BOM update but gales are now extending beyond the coastal fringe, with significant impact experienced in Cairns and southern areas today.

A slow moving tropical low is developing off the north tropical coast of Queensland.