Firefighters embarked on the mission to save the rare Wollemi Pines. Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric -- and extremely rare -- Wollemi pine ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

WASHINGTON - A motorist driving down a street in Australia made a lucky escape on May 3, when a falling tree barely missed their car. In a video recorded by Sian Rinaldi’s home security camera in ...

Ian McConachie has spent much of the past 50 years tramping through the rainforest on the hunt for wild macadamia trees. “Finding a wild macadamia is akin to the thrill of finding gold,” he says. Yet ...

Notorious stinging trees from Australia cause agonizing pain that can linger for weeks and even months. New research suggests this nettle relative is actually venomous, producing a toxin not unlike ...

New research finds that the tropical trees of North Queensland have been dying at faster rates for nearly 40 years now. Since the mid-1980s, the average risk of tree death has approximately doubled.

Buried amid the horrific news from Australia about climate change and out-of-control wildfire was something positive. According to an Associated Press story titled Firefighters in Australia save ...

Lecturer and Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez is employed by Western Sydney University and received funding from the Which ...

Tree kangaroos, which live high up in the tall rainforest trees of New Guinea and Australia, are usually very hard to spot from the ground. But thermal drones, which detect animals from their body ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Buried amid the horrific news from Australia about climate change and out-of-control ...