Reforms to Australia’s nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment ...

Studies published by researchers from the Australian National University and Curtin University since 2022 have claimed ...

Some of the world’s most ancient rainforests lie in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. Continually wet since the time of the dinosaurs, these forests once covered the supercontinent ...

Australia’s mountain ash forests, known as some of the tallest and most carbon-rich forests on Earth, are now facing alarming stress from rising temperatures. These forests were once considered ...

Every year, government workers around Australia start fires in the bush. The idea behind these prescribed burning programs is ...

Australia’s forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News on Jan. 8 and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration to strengthen coverage of the ...

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In the back corner of a burned lot in Australia's fire-ravaged South Coast stands a torched tree. It's uppermost branches reach into a cloudless sky, brittle and bare. Against its charred trunk rests ...

As extreme wildfires burn across large swaths of Australia, scientists say we’re witnessing how global warming can push forest ecosystems past a point of no return. Some of those forests won’t recover ...