Most citizen science initiatives ask people to record living things, like frogs, wombats, or feral animals. But dead things can also be hugely informative for science. We have just launched a new ...

Some of the most serious threats to our forests do not arrive with smoke or headlines. They move quietly, through bark and ...

A July 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) purports that one person's explanation of Australia's net carbon emissions proves that climate change is not real. "Man gives crazy theory that ...

Australia is notorious for hosting some of the most frightening creatures on Earth; including gargantuan arachnids and hawks that spread fire. Even some of Australia’s trees are vicious, like the ...

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.

Australia is well known for having many of the world's most venomous creatures, ranging from snakes, spiders, jellyfish, centipedes, fish, ticks, bees, and ants. 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in ...

On the outside, Corymbia opaca and Corymbia calophylla may look like completely normal trees — but slice one open, and you'll quickly discover an eerie secret. Native to Australia, the trees, which ...

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," ...

Across the American West, what looks like a leafy success story of fast-growing shade and windbreaks is doubling as a vast, accidental fuel depot. In trying to green bare hillsides and feed a hungry ...

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