MetLife Australia has renewed a three-year partnership with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, continuing its support for a ...

High up in the trees in the tropical rainforests of Australia and New Guinea, extremely rare animals called tree kangaroos ...

In Australia's Illawarra region, a ghostbusting-style night tour reveals ghost fungi, sea sparkles and tiny creatures ...

Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly ...

Inspired to do some sustainable sightseeing this year? Booking.com analysed hundreds of destinations around Australia to ...

One of the field sites was in an old growth forest in  Australia’s Daintree Rainforest, at the James Cook University ...

Published May 6 in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by scientists from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, the study found that termites are not thriving in replanted rainforests in Australia.

Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said Thursday after studying ancient fossils with new techniques. Weighing as ...

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Young rainforests lack termites, and that may slow their recovery. Scientists explore reintroducing key decomposers to ...

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 ...