When it comes to cooling the planet, tropical forests serve an important purpose as “carbon sinks”—their trees absorb carbon ...

The research found that standing woody biomass in Australia’s wet tropics was now losing about 0.9 tonnes of carbon per ...

Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions ...

Australia’s rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb, as heat, drought, and storms push them past a tipping ...

It was a toad-ally unexpected find. Australian park rangers were stunned when they stumbled upon what could be the world’s largest known toad deep in a rainforest, tipping the scales at a whopping 6 ...

The Daintree Rainforest is located in Queensland and is the world’s oldest surviving rainforest that covers over 160,000 hectares. It is also one of the largest continuous blocks of rainforest in ...

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.