A fast-spreading fungal disease has left the newly named Australian "zombie tree" unable to produce flowers, fruit or seeds, ...

Tree kangaroos, which live high up in the tall rainforest trees of New Guinea and Australia, are usually very hard to spot from the ground. But thermal drones, which detect animals from their body ...

More than 60% of Australia's plant species are found in rainforests, despite the ecosystem accounting for just 3% of the country's land mass. Study co-author Associate Professor John Dwyer from UQ's ...

Corridors of planted rainforest trees — landscape linkages — are a straightforward, but costly, on-ground action that can repair past damage and bolster ecosystem resilience in Australia’s Wet Tropics ...

Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international ...

Northeast Australia’s relict tropical rainforests, one of the oldest and most isolated rainforests in the world. Credit: Alexander Shenkin Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at ...

The rainforests in northeast Australia are some of the most protected in the world – they haven't been logged in nearly 40 years. But after decades of measuring these forests tree by tree, scientists ...

Woody trunks and branches of trees in the wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are losing their ability to absorb excess carbon dioxide. That's according to an analysis of 49 years' worth of data, ...