Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Located 104 km southwest of Hobart, Southport can claim to be the southernmost settlement in Australia. It can, however, hardly ...

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Tasmania has been burning for more than two weeks, with no end in sight. Almost 100,000 hectares of bushland in the northwest has burned to date. This includes the Tarkine rainforest and alpine ...

During the transition to the current interglacial period, rainforest trees represented only about 41% of the pollen record, while buttongrass moorland—an indicator of human influence—expanded ...

Rob is an advocate for Tasmania cutting back logging operations in the Tarkine to protect its old-growth forests. "If we keep woodchipping them and clear-felling them we're just not going to have ...

Recent excavations in western Tasmania uncovered a number of plant fossils, including the remains of two species of conifer previously unknown to science that were part of a 53 million-year-old ...

Tasmania has been burning for more than two weeks, with no end in sight. Almost 100,000 hectares of bushland in the northwest has burned to date. This includes the Tarkine rainforest and alpine ...