Why do Australian rainforests occur as islands within the vast tracts of Eucalyptus? Why is fire a critical ecological factor in every Australian landscape? What were the consequences of the use of ...

At around 1,200 square kilometres, the Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Daintree Rainforest ...

Highlighting the cool temperate rainforests of Lutruwita (Tasmania), Sarah Cooley, a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues investigated vegetation changes ...

Australia's Daintree - the world's oldest tropical rainforest - has been returned to its Aboriginal custodians in a historic deal. The Unesco World Heritage site is over 180 million years old and ...

The World Heritage listed Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (or CERRA) is an area of approximately 370 000 hectares, equal to the size of Switzerland. It comprises nearly 50 reserves, ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a treasure trove of roughly 2,000 remarkably well-preserved fossils from an ancient Australian rainforest ... creatures' lives. For example, one fish fin was ...

In the tropical north-east of Australia, a new long-distance coastal ... runs along the coast of the Great Barrier Reef and through rainforest, and holidaymakers can already explore a first ...