The majority of the country's forests are uniquely adapted to fire ... species and disease. The Australian government recently released a report identifying 113 animal species that are in need ...

Drier types of Australian forest, which have some fire tolerance ... 16 threatened plants and 27 threatened animals have been affected by fire, including the peach myrtle (Uromyrtus australis ...

Many Australian forest ecosystems are naturally fire resilient ... “Our threatened plants, animals and ecological communities also require ongoing efforts to build resilience to both ...

These are a few of the numbers that have emerged in recent days to capture the toll of the extreme heat and raging fires on Australian animal life ... The current fire season is “deeply ...

An expert review of forest recovery science has found 70 per cent of plant species within eucalypt forests survive bushfires. About 70 per cent of plant species in Australia’s eucalypt forests will ...

Kangaroos and koalas might be the most notorious Australian ... The animals are part of the kangaroo and wallaby family, but because of predation, habitat loss and human-altered fire patterns ...

Many of Australia’s gum trees ... a larger proportion of grasses and shrubs.” Where forests can’t fully recover from fire, the animal species that rely on those ecosystems will face ...

The killing of one of Australia's most endangered species has sparked outrage, but the government says a ‘compassionate’ ...

In Australia, for example ... (Read more about how forest fires are getting too hot even for some fire-adapted animals.) In areas of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S, the landscape ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a ...

Rattlesnakes have developed specific behaviors to counter the immediate danger of forest fires. Unlike mammals that can quickly flee, snakes rely on seeking refuge. When a fire approaches ...