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 ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a treasure trove of roughly 2,000 remarkably well-preserved fossils from an ancient Australian rainforest, revealing an ecosystem in the thick of a changing climate.

These plants will then be tested to see what genetic variation could be beneficial in surviving the climate changes likely to impact Australia in the coming decades. Those plant candidates will ...

In Nightcap National Park alone — one of 30 parks and reserves that make up the Gondwana Rainforests — 16 threatened plants and 27 threatened animals have been affected by fire, including the ...

Since 2000, EcoBiotics has been quietly combing the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, for new pharmaceutical compounds. Now with two anticancer candidates in the late stages of preclinical ...

Some of Australia’s most beautiful natural sites have been returned to Aboriginal ownership, including Queensland’s Daintree rainforest. The area of more than 160,000 hectares will now be co ...

The corpse flower or corpse plant, known as bunga bangkai in its native Indonesia, is endemic to the rainforests of western Sumatra. It only blooms for a few days every 7 to 10 years in its ...

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 ...

Sydney - A potential cancer drug developed from an Australian rainforest plant is set to progress to human trials after fighting off inoperable tumours in pets, the company behind it said on Monday.

The scientists’ discoveries, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, help reconstruct Australia’s Miocene rainforest in extensive detail, and the site “opens a whole new area of ...