More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...

More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...

TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AP) — The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to traditional owners in a deal signed with an Australian state government on ...

A drug derived from a plant native to the Australian rainforest may prove to be a new weapon against cancer, according to the AFP. QBiotics Ltd has released a statement announcing that a drug made ...

SYDNEY — A potential cancer drug developed from an Australian rainforest plant is set to progress to human trials after fighting off inoperable tumours in pets, the company behind it said Monday.

On the eve of the World Parks Congress in Sydney, the Australian government has just hosted the ‘Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit’, a two-day event that brought together political leaders, academics, ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...

It was a toad-ally unexpected find. Australian park rangers were stunned when they stumbled upon what could be the world’s largest known toad deep in a rainforest, tipping the scales at a whopping 6 ...

This site, comprising several protected areas, is situated predominantly along the Great Escarpment on Australia’s east coast. The outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic ...

Scientists have found what they’re describing as a “lost world” on the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, hosting at least three previously undocumented species, including a frog that makes love ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered three new species of animals in a rainforest ‘lost world’ in Australia, protected for millions of years by almost impenetrable stacks of granite boulders.