TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AP) — The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to traditional owners in a deal signed with an Australian state government on ...

More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...

The fossils paint a picture of life in Australia's prehistoric rainforests, 15 million years ago. They also reveal major climate changes as Australia's rainforests turned into desert. Paleontologists ...

Australia is a vast, remote, and mysterious land of extremes. Think of Australia, and images of its red, arid, inhospitable interior instantly spring to mind. The Australian outback, dominated by the ...

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.

A new international study has warned that Australia’s tropical rainforests have become the first in the world to release more carbon than they absorb; this change is particularly concerning as ...

Australia's tropical rainforests are now releasing more carbon dioxide than they absorb, a concerning first globally attributed to climate change. Scientists found extreme heat and droughts are ...

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 ...