Forest activist Miranda Gibson’s 15-month stay up a giant eucalypt has been interrupted by bushfire. Meanwhile Tasmania’s forestry peace deal, now being considered in the state’s upper house, has ...

Tom Baxter stood for the Tasmanian Greens in a May 2013 Tasmanian Upper House election at which forestry was an election issue. He has served on the boards of various non-government organisations and ...

This video shows aerial footage of Tasmania’s dense mountain rainforests, captured in 4K. Lush green landscapes unfold under ...

Environmental groups are mobilising for action as a long-awaited decision on a controversial mining project in Tasmania’s ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest. When you purchase through links on our ...

Chinese-owned mining giant MMG has proposed a new tailings storage facility at its Rosebery mine site in northwest Tasmania. Credit: Courtesy of the Bob Brown Foundation. In northwest Tasmania, an ...

Tasmania has been burning for more than two weeks, with no end in sight. Almost 100,000 hectares of bushland in the northwest ...

The Tasmanian devil roams the island state of Australia as the apex predator of the land, feeding on whatever it pleases as the top dog – or the top devil. But some of these marsupial scavengers could ...

Environment Minister Murray Watt is secretly negotiating with Chinese state-owned corporation MMG over its proposed tailings dam in Takayna rainforest, questions at Senate Estimates have shown.

An architectural gem with a bathroom layout connected to nature is selling in Tasmania. The four-bedroom home at 17 Swan Point Esplanade in Swan Point is billed as a retreat. Built in 1975, it was ...