When it comes to cooling the planet, tropical forests serve an important purpose as “carbon sinks”—their trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, storing it within their stems and branches. Now, a ...

Rainforests in Australia’s northern tropics are no longer acting as net carbon sinks, according to new research. – Copyright AFP Brendan SMIALOWSKI Australia’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia’s rainforests now release more carbon than they absorb, scientists warn Australia’s tropical rainforests – once key ...

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australian universities has found the first evidence that woody biomass in tropical rainforests is acting as a long-term source of carbon ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At 135 million years old, Australia’s Daintree Rainforest significantly predates the Amazon. The region features a ...

Australia's Indigenous populations have played an important role in modifying the continent's landscape over millennia, particularly by using fire to create open spaces for daily activities. This ...

In a recent review published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, researchers provide an overview of bioactive plant compounds as potential anti-neuroinflammatory agents and the ...

"Previously published in November 1984 as volume 1 of World Wildlife Fund (Australia) project 44, Australian national rainforests study report, proceedings of a workshop on the past, present, and ...

When Tony Parkes retired from investment banking at the age of 56, few would have predicted that his next chapter would revolve around seedlings, rainforest ecology and one of Australia's most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author at Paronella Park.Monica Humphries/Insider Paronella Park is home to an overgrown rainforest, moss-covered structures, ...

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 ...