The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

Belinda Medlyn receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Brendan Choat receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Australia & ...

Researchers from Western Sydney University have uncovered the novel strategies Australian eucalypt trees use to survive extreme heatwaves. One remarkable process involves the tree evaporating large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1800s, eucalyptus trees were proposed as a solution to timber shortages. Matty explained how, after seeing Zootopia 2, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inner West Council plans to cut down this tree and plant new ones, but a leading expert warns it will take decades for them to ...

• The Australian tree fern (Cyathea cooperi) is a large tropical fern that forms a trunk. In the wild, a mature tree’s medium to dark green fronds can grow 5 to 8 feet long, but the fronds will be ...

Councils claim they can simply chop down large trees and plant new ones. But is the claim often too good to be true? Inner West Council plans to cut down this tree and plant new ones, but a leading ...