"We rely on them more than most people realise," Dr. Hannah Carle said of rainforests, which are beginning to operate ...

The National Assessment considered 10 priority hazards (including temperature increases, drought, bushfires, storms, flooding and ocean warming) over historical (1850-1900), current (2011-2030), ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start leaking more carbon dioxide than they absorb, ...

For ten long years, Australia earned an unenviable reputation as one of the world's climate change "laggards." From 2013 to ...

Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions ...

The research found that standing woody biomass in Australia’s wet tropics was now losing about 0.9 tonnes of carbon per ...

Australia’s rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb, as heat, drought, and storms push them past a tipping ...

Climate change is reshaping migration worldwide - forcing some people to move while trapping millions more in growing danger ...

Prepared by the country’s leading official scientific bodies, the report predicts extreme heat and heatwaves, significant sea ...

Environmentalists are up in arms over the Australian government’s apparent backsliding on its “net zero by 2050” commitments and the interim targets it set. Although the government hasn’t formally ...

Will the Liberal Party take a stand on “net zero” or not? (I am using “net zero” as a shorthand way of labelling the whole ...

What makes forests more flammable? The report says that climate change is not just creating more dangerous fire-prone weather ...