Only a third of Australia’s forests remain

New analysis from the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted the enormous scale of deforestation in Australia, exacerbated by ‘deforestation loopholes’ and weak nature laws that provide special carve outs to industry and allow rampant destruction of the bush.

Forest dump

Hopes that higher levels of atmospheric carbon would boost tree growth and lock carbon into biomass have been dashed by a new survey which suggests that drought and higher temperatures are turning tropical forests into carbon sources rather than sinks.

Replanting done right

Well intentioned tree-planting schemes can fail if simple rules known to every gardener are not followed when saplings are put in the soil. Fancy tools and strict spacing is far less important, for example, than handling roots with care and saturating the soil.

Tracking tropical forest loss

Researchers reporting have developed a new way to keep tabs on the vulnerability of tropical forests on a global scale using satellite data.

The high climate cost of virgin forest destruction

The consequences of the hastening destruction of intact tropical forests is even more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research.

Why are the rain forests burning?

Forests around the world – from the Amazon to South-East Asia and Australia – are on fire, largely due to the direct and indirect actions of man.

Protecting forests could save the world

Natural forest systems are far better at adapting to change conditions than young, degraded or plantation forests, and protecting wild forests is the best way to combat climate change.