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

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

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 ...

The first time I saw the Ada Tree, I felt tiny. It was October 2015, just days after arriving in Victoria to study mountain ash forests. During a visit to the Central Highlands, we went to see the Ada ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...