- Professor of Marine Science & Founder/Director of Blue Carbon Lab, Deakin University
Australia has almost 1.8 million farm dams – and some are home to threatened frog species
Sharks and other ocean predators help protect the ocean’s carbon stores by keeping other wildlife in check.
The research excellence of academics is often measured by the quantity and quality of their scholarly publications. But how do we know that all authors listed on a publication have actually been involved…
Rising sea levels will lead to a drastic decline in seagrass stocks, a new study has found, but reducing water pollution may help offset the effects. Seagrass is crucial to slowing climate change because…
Seagrass stores carbon 35 times faster than rainforests, preventing billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases escaping every year, but its crucial role in slowing climate change has been largely overlooked…
Reducing carbon emissions is necessary, but what about the carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere? Many countries are turning to “biosequestration” for the answers: using nature - including…
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill reminds us of our ever-increasing footprint on our oceans. But could we be converting oil rigs from an environmental threat to a benefit? We have long thought…
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