Researchers recently found a newly discovered stick bug species in the high-altitude rainforests of northern Queensland, ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year ...

About 115,000 years ago (and again 90,000 years ago), Australia was dotted with gigantic inland “ megalakes ”. At those times, the lagoon expanded into a large, shallow lake surrounded by lush ...

Australia's forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.

Weather records since the 1960s show northern Australia getting steadily wetter, and less rain in Australia’s southeast and southwest. Trends in total annual rainfall in Australia from 1960 to 2020.