{"results":[{"title":"Building better evidence for Australia's ocean future","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/beach-community-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/building-better-evidence-for-australias-ocean-future","publisheddate":"2026-06-18","summary":"
Research is  helping  to shape a national roadmap linking ocean health, communities, governance and the economy to strengthen how Australia uses evidence to manage its oceans.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Resilient environment and climate change"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Strategy"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Global surveys find carbon uptake in tropics overestimated","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/tropical-plants-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/global-surveys-find-carbon-uptake-in-tropics-overestimated","publisheddate":"2026-06-16","summary":"
An international team of researchers has found plants in the tropics absorb much less carbon dioxide than previous modelling had suggested, which has implications for management of ecosystems.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Mathematics"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Resilient environment and climate change"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Elusive deep-sea goblin shark seen alive for the first time","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/goblin-shark-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/elusive-deep-sea-goblin-shark-seen-alive-for-the-first-time","publisheddate":"2026-06-12","summary":"
The first live observations of the rare and elusive goblin shark in its natural deep ocean habitat have been recorded, extending their known depth and geographic range significantly.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Resilient environment and climate change"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"World-first project to help save endangered Carnaby's Cockatoos","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/c4c-adobe-carnabyscard.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/world-first-project-to-help-save-endangered-carnabys-cockatoos","publisheddate":"2026-06-10","summary":"
More than 200,000 trees will be planted along a 10km stretch of land south of Mandurah as part of an ambitious plan to save Western Australia’s iconic Carnaby’s Cockatoo from extinction.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"UWA School of Agriculture and Environmental Science"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Exploring and protecting our blue frontier","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ocean-day-2026-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/exploring-and-protecting-our-blue-frontier","publisheddate":"2026-06-08","summary":"
World Ocean Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the ocean's extraordinary contribution to our planet and reflect on our responsibility to understand and protect it.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"New imaging tools to tackle national research priorities","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/micorscopy-launch-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/new-imaging-tools-to-tackle-national-research-priorities","publisheddate":"2026-05-28","summary":"
New research equipment installed at UWA will support innovative multimodal and correlative microscopy to address national needs in energy, critical minerals, environment, agriculture and health research.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Is it time to stop?","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/mine-trucks-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/for-44-years-australia-has-subsidised-diesel-use-is-it-time-to-stop","publisheddate":"2026-05-27","summary":"
Mining giant BHP has come under fire for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new diesel trucks in the Pilbara, despite promising a transition to electric trucks in its climate strategy.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Mining Engineering"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Regional rural and remote"},{"title":"UWA School of Agriculture and Environmental Science"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Glacial cycles shape evolution of many species of Antarctic sea slug","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/sea-slug-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/glacial-cycles-shape-evolution-of-many-species-of-antarctic-sea-slug","publisheddate":"2026-05-21","summary":"
Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct species that were shaped over millions of years by repeated Antarctic glacial cycles.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Resilient environment and climate change"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Scientific leaders recognised for groundbreaking research","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/alex-filipovska-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/scientific-leaders-recognised-for-groundbreaking-research","publisheddate":"2026-05-21","summary":"
An ecologist and conservation biologist, genetic disease researcher and mathematician specialising in partial equations are among 26 researchers from around the country to be elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Mathematics"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Staff"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Domesticated dingo buried by Barkindji people 1,000 years ago","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/dingo-bones-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/domesticated-dingo-buried-by-barkindji-people-1000-years-ago","publisheddate":"2026-05-19","summary":"
The skeleton of a millennium-old dingo that was tamed by Barkindji ancestors has been uncovered in a midden on the Baaka (Darling River) in New South Wales.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Our place culture and heritage"},{"title":"School of Social Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]}]}