In a ceremony on Wednesday the Australian state of Queensland granted land deeds to a local Indigenous group, giving them ownership of the world's oldest rainforest. The Daintree Rainforest, listed as ...
In Queensland’s northern reaches lie the Wet Tropics, spanning about 450 kilometres between Townsville and Cooktown. These mountainous rainforests are a relic of the ancient continent of Gondwana, ...
What could be Australia's heaviest insect has been discovered in northern Australia's high altitude rainforests. The supersized stick insect, about 40cm long, was discovered in high altitude trees in ...
One approach to help fight climate change is to protect natural forests, as they absorb some atmospheric carbon released by burning fossil fuels and store large volumes of carbon. Our new research on ...