Pay a visit to this remote area of Australia and you'll be stepping into the world's oldest rainforest region. Kuranda is a colorful village perched high up on the eastern edge of the Atherton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia’s rainforests now release more carbon than they absorb, scientists warn Australia’s tropical rainforests – once key ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

A fire ant nest has been spotted at one of Australia’s most iconic World Heritage rainforests, sparking concerns about the potential threat posed to the region’s ecology by one of the world’s worst ...

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

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Environmental charity Climate Force is collaborating with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people and rangers to create a wildlife corridor that runs ...

One of the field sites was in an old growth forest in Australia’s Daintree Rainforest, at the James Cook University Observatory. Termites — infamous for their ability to destroy wood — are rarely ...

Scientists in Australia have developed an innovative wireless sensor network (WSN) to monitor the environment and potentially restore endangered rainforests. The group has deployed 10 wireless ...

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 ...

Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...