This video shows two southern cassowaries standing deep inside a tropical rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Their bright blue necks, dark feathers, and large helmet-like casques make them look ...

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 ...

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 ...

Predating the Amazon, Australia's Daintree Rainforest is a 135-million-year-old marvel. Discover the ancient biodiversity ...

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 ...

Researchers in Australia are building a "living seed bank" to protect the continent’s last-remaining fragments of rainforest from climate change. One goal is to avoid the extinction of ancient trees, ...

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 ...

Throw out all your preconceptions about pigeons, because Australia’s rainforest pigeons are some of the most striking birds in the world. THE PIGEONS MOST Australians are familiar with are the rock ...

The trunks and branches of trees in Australia's tropical rainforests—also known as woody biomass—have become a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to a new international study.