Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

The coal seam gas rush and plans to open up one of Australia's largest undeveloped coal fields are providing hope of another mining boom for resource-reliant Queensland.

The world needs to move away from only setting national carbon emission targets, an expert from the Australian National University (ANU) has claimed.

Scientists at RMIT University are attempting to boost the efficiency of solar energy conversion technology with an improved type of solar cell.

Research underway at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange is using native wetland plants to help map out a sustainable future for Australian mining.

Innovation and change will be the hallmarks of the Australian companies that succeed in the Asian century, the In the Zone conference at The University of Western Australia was told ...

Australia should prepare now for dry times ahead by 'banking' its water underground when rainfall is plentiful, according to an important new scientific study.

Research conducted by Southern Cross University shows methane concentrations collected around the Tara gas fields in Southern Queensland are significantly higher than surrounding ...

A corporate governance expert says the final ruling in the James Hardie Industries litigation does provide some broad justice and clarification of directors' duties, but the length ...

Global drought areas have not increased over the past 60 years due to climate change, according to a new paper published in Nature, contradicting previous research.

Queensland technology company, RedFlow, recently launched a highly innovative renewable energy battery storage system — the M90 — at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

The prospect of creating clean, renewable hydrogen fuel is closer than ever after a breakthrough in our understanding of photosynthesis.

An off-grid, sustainable power supply developed by a Curtin University PhD student is being used to power one of the hottest and most remote locations in Australia.

A distinguished Australian scientist, the winner of an international soil science prize, has called for Australia to lead a renewed global effort to reverse the alarming degradation ...

Scientists from UQ's Advanced Water Management Centre have found a way to curb the cost – and smell – of sewage transportation.

Whatever their political persuasion, people are more likely to believe that global warming is caused by humans if they find out that most climate change scientists believe this is ...

Remote Australia has a 'vast potential' to produce renewable energy for domestic use, for supply to coastal regions and possibly even to East Asia, according to a new review carried ...

CSIRO has developed a new biodegradable weed mat which could put a stop to nasty weeds and transform the future of Australia’s agriculture and farming industries.

New research at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will attempt to find new ways to protect Australia's vineyards from two of the wine industry's biggest scourges — the pathogenic ...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) is funding researchers at the University of New England to investigate how energy producers and consumers are adapting to the carbon tax.

RMIT University has signed a multi-million dollar partnership with World Wide Carbon Credits Australia to develop an algae-based biofuel at a commercial scale.