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An innovative sand-animation video created by Aboriginal children from the Goldfields is helping spread the word about a project to identify childhood exposure to heavy metals across remote communities.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health"},{"title":"Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis"},{"title":"Dental School"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Health and biotechnology"},{"title":"Rural Clinical School of WA"},{"title":"School of Human Sciences"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"CorporateHomeFeatured"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Regional rural and remote"}]},{"title":"How two ancient rivers gave birth to the Euphrates","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ancient-rivers_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/how-two-ancient-rivers-gave-birth-to-the-euphrates","publisheddate":"2026-06-03","summary":"
Geoscientists have shed light on the enduring mystery of how the modern Euphrates River – central to the origins of human civilisation – came to exist.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Geography and Planning"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Our place culture and heritage"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"Featured"}]},{"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":"New insight into formation of ancient continents","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/zircon-find-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/new-insight-into-formation-of-ancient-continents","publisheddate":"2026-05-11","summary":"
An international team of researchers’ analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion years ago. ","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Oyster reefs stack up for shoreline protection","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/oyster-reefs-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/oyster-reefs-stack-up-for-shoreline-protection","publisheddate":"2026-04-07","summary":"
Oyster reef living shorelines have been found to provide a resilient and adaptive alternative to conventional hard coastal protection.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Resilient environment and climate change"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"Featured"}]},{"title":"Phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/anticosti-island-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/phosphorus-spikes-linked-to-ancient-marine-mass-extinctions","publisheddate":"2026-04-01","summary":"
Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth’s history.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"UWA Geology 3rd Year Laboratory Upgrade Appeal","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2021/geology-card-image.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2022/april/uwa-geology-3rd-year-laboratory-upgrade-appeal","publisheddate":"2026-03-20","summary":"We need your help to raise $500,000 to modernise this laboratory to continue to train geoscience graduates for the changing employment needs of industry and government into the future!","sxaTags":[{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"Alumni"},{"title":"Development and Alumni Relations"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"}]},{"title":"UWA key to critical minerals sector","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/hongqi-sun-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/march/uwa-key-to-critical-minerals-sector","publisheddate":"2026-03-17","summary":"
The University is a key research partner in a new research centre bolstering Australia’s critical minerals refining sector.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Business School"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Mining Engineering"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Regional rural and remote"},{"title":"Clean energy transition and sustainable resources"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"School of Molecular Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Featured"}]},{"title":"Research boosts search for new mineral deposits","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/mineral-field-work-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/february/research-boosts-search-for-new-mineral-deposits","publisheddate":"2026-02-19","summary":"
Western Australian hydrothermal and magmatic deposits that formed several hundred kilometres apart more than two and half billion years ago share more commonalities than previously thought.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Clean energy transition and sustainable resources"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/conversation-groundwater-card-944x522.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/december/how-the-myth-of-aqua-nullius-still-guides-australias-approach-to-groundwater","publisheddate":"2025-12-18","summary":"
Indigenous groundwater knowledge challenges colonial 'aqua nullius', urging shared governance to protect water, culture and Country amid growing extraction.","sxaTags":[{"title":"CWSS"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"UWA School of Agriculture and Environmental Science"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]}]}