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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Great Southern researchers explore native flora for commercial applicability
A UWA Centre for Excellence in Resource Management (CENRN) researcher in Albany, is working with the community in developing native plants as economically viable food for humans or as forage for livestock for the Great Southern region.
The striking and rugged Kimberley is Western Australia’s most northern region and covers an area twice the size of Victoria or 424,517 square kilometres.
Its geographical and ecological diversity provides WA with natural resources, unique flora and fauna, terrain and the greatest diversity of rock art in Australia.
As the Kimberley is one of Australia’s last true wildernesses, science and conservation will be critical to understanding how we benefit environmentally, culturally and economically from this unique region.
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Agriculture & Food
Great Southern researchers explore native flora for commercial applicability
A UWA Centre for Excellence in Resource Management (CENRN) researcher in Albany, is working with the community in develo...
Environment & Conservation
UV filter residues from personal care products potential aquatic contaminant
AN AQUATIC ecology and water management scientist has highlighted the need for greater awareness and research on po...
Fisheries & Water
WA students contribute to geosocial ocean app, theBlu
PERTH university students are set to join the world of some of the best animators and developers helping to create a uni...
Health & Medicine
Hope for a new meningococcal B vaccine
A PERTH-based paediatrician has led an international collaboration to develop a highly anticipated meningococcal serogro...
Industry & Resources
Water hyacinth may hold key to remediate mining wastewater
WITH its free-floating fibrous roots and rapid growth rate, the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the most...
Space
Last chance to see transit of Venus in a lifetime
THE coming transit of Venus, where the planet Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, will almost certainly be the l...
Technology & Innovation
ICT activity in WA going from WApp to OzAPP
A COMPETITION aimed at finding the best new mobile phone app in Australia, has recently been announced by Curtin Univers...
Aboriginal Science & Knowledge
Further hospital admissions result from folly with caustic berries
THE berries of Grevillea pyramidalis ssp. Leucadendron have caused severe skin burns to children in remote Aboriginal co...
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