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 ...

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for “unlawfully” clearing tracts of endangered forest without approvals between 2019 and 2025. The ...

The tall alpine ash forests in Australia’s high country have lived in a delicate relationship with fire for tens of thousands of years. Intensifying fire seasons are threatening this balance to the ...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australian universities has found the first evidence that woody biomass in tropical rainforests is acting as a long-term source of carbon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kara Peak/Unsplah, CC BY Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now ...

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a eucalyptus tree that towered into the canopy for centuries. As wide as two ...

In advice underpinning the 62-70 per cent target, the Climate Change Authority warns that meeting even the lower end of this range would require major curtailment of native forestry. It said this must ...

The world's rainforests are typically thought of as crucial "carbon sinks" -- sucking huge quantities of planet-heating emissions from the atmosphere. Some models predict that increased carbon dioxide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good rainfall across much of Australia in the past year has kept the vegetation green and rivers flowing. For the fifth year in a ...