Based on a half century of data, new research shows that woody biomass, a major component of tropical rainforest ecosystems, has become a net emitter of carbon dioxide.

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new ...

Brenda Garstone is on the hunt for her heritage. Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where dozens of ancient boab trees are engraved ...

SUN VALLEY, Australia, Feb 14 (Reuters) - In the forested Sun Valley an hour west of the centre of Sydney, conservation biologist Matt Stephens looks into a tree hollow carved using the Hollowhog, a ...

Originally from South America, jacarandas were introduced to Australia in the 1800s as an ornamental decoration.

Australia has given us many fine things: Margot Robbie and Chris Hemsworth, Tyrell’s Old Patch Shiraz – and even Rob Machado, ...

Ian McConachie has spent much of the past 50 years tramping through the rainforest on the hunt for wild macadamia trees. “Finding a wild macadamia is akin to the thrill of finding gold,” he says. Yet ...

They say that trees live for thousands of years. Like many things that "they" say, there is a germ of truth in the saying (even though it is mostly false). The vast majority of trees that burst forth ...

In parts of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, no species is quite as striking, or as photographed, as the jacaranda. In ...