Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as ...

New remains of a 53-million-year-old polar forest have ... Harbor in western Tasmania, unveiling previously unknown ancestral origins of rainforest plants in the southern polar region.

Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying ...

Today, the island of Tasmania lies across the Bass Strait from southern Australia ... fire to shape and modify Tasmania’s dense and wet forest. By analyzing sediment cores—long, cylindrical ...

Early human migrations from Africa to the southern ... wet forest for their own use—as indicated by a sudden increase in charcoal accumulated in ancient mud 41,600 years ago. Tasmania currently ...

“Native forest logging has destroyed large tracts of Tasmania’s globally significant forests, and it must end immediately,” Dr Brown said. “Right now, habitat for the critically endangered ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago ... Early human migrations from Africa to the southern part of the globe were well underway during the early part ...