Australia’s Kimberley region houses some of the country’s most botanically diverse ecosystems: monsoon rainforest patches. Although they’ve been harvested and cared for by First Nations groups for ...

When it comes to cooling the planet, tropical forests serve an important purpose as “carbon sinks”—their trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, storing it within their stems and branches. Now, a ...

Australia’s tropical rainforests – once key carbon sinks – are releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, scientists say, marking the first such recorded shift anywhere in the ...

Today, Australia is home to some trees, like the Red and Yellow Carabeen, which are ancient remnants of a time when the Land Down Under was part of the supercontinent Gondwana. Now those trees are ...

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 ...

Researchers studied rainforests in northeastern Australia. These wet rainforests are very dense, and their canopies help cool down their ecosystems and store large amounts of carbon. Robert Linsdell ...