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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s Kimberley region houses some of the country’s most botanically diverse ecosystems: monsoon rainforest patches. Although they’ve been harvested and cared for by First Nations groups for ...

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The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for ...

"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 ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along ...

1. Introduction -- 2. What is Australian rainforest? -- 3. The sclerophyll problem -- 4. The edaphic theory I. The control of rainforest by soil phosphorus -- 5. The edaphic theory II. Soil types, ...

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 ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along ...