Forests around the world are taking longer to recover from severe wildfires – potentially indicating forest decline, ...

Wildlife, wilderness, and culture collide on this multi-day walking experience on a little-known island in Tasmania.

Timber industry insiders are increasingly concerned an estimated 100,000 tonnes of timber harvested for forest health will be left to rot in huge stockpiles in the state’s South West.

The map is managed by Charles Darwin University and based on satellite data from across the NT, Western Australia ... private investment or funding from state and territory governments.

For Australia ... ridden with sea urchins. Western Tasmania's temperate rainforests are at risk of becoming fire-prone eucalyptus forest systems due to extreme wildfires and shifting climate ...

Western Australia and the Northern Territory ... Syphilis cases are rising in Australia. State figures show Queensland recorded 1467 cases of syphilis last year, which was an increase on the ...

In a life-threatening emergency call triple-0. People with a hearing or speech impairment should call 106 through a TTY or computer with a modem. There's a change coming to how some warnings are ...

In the 2013 Western Australia state election, Alex Dawson and a few friends were not ... social media for mentions of sausage sizzles and placing pins on a Google map — but now is a collaborative ...

Fire weather (often hot, dry and windy) is a significant contributor to fire risk in forest ... in northern Australia has increased by around 20% since 1994. April to October rainfall deciles for the ...

Fire weather is monitored in Australia with the Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI ... The drying trend is particularly strong between May and July over southwest Western Australia, with rainfall since ...

Climate change causes forest fuels (the trees and plants that burn and spread wildfire) to be drier and more ready to burn. The number of large fires has doubled between 1984 and 2015 in the western .