When Shannon Leah Fraser disappeared in Queensland's tropical rainforest in September 2014, rescuers feared the worst. Search ...

Australia contains some of the world's most biologically diverse and carbon-dense native forests. Eucalypts in wet temperate forests are the tallest flowering plants in the world and home to an array ...

Climate-related fire danger does not always advance in a simple, linear way.

What’s the best way to manage a forest? Australians have argued about this for decades. The debate is often framed as binary: ...

Researchers studied rainforests in northeastern Australia. These wet rainforests are very dense, and their canopies help cool down their ecosystems and store large amounts of carbon. Robert Linsdell ...

Australia's Great Southern Reef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) around southern Australia. Amid the ...

Mountain ash forests in Australia are the best in the world at locking up carbon, a new study has found. And one of the authors says climate change negotiations should give more attention to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At 135 million years old, Australia’s Daintree Rainforest significantly predates the Amazon. The region features a ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing and ...

Trail cameras at a protected forest in Australia photographed three rare mammals with bulging pouches —the site’s first wild-born babies. Photo from the Queensland’s Government In a protected forest ...