For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.

A unique partnership between an artist and a botanist has resulted in an old rail corridor in South Australia becoming an eucalypt forest.

Rain has returned to farming regions in South Australia. But the drought is not over  — it just looks like it.

The winter crop growing season requires three days of steady rain – but many inland parts of southern Australia did not receive an autumn break this year

As South Australia and Victoria continue to face drought and unseasonable heat, there has been a notable absence of major rain systems. So, what's going on?

Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts * Explore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election * Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Last week I went to Adelaide to see a man about a tree. The man was Dr Dean Nicolle and the tree was actually 10,000 eucalypt trees and mallees, of over 800 species, which Dean has been planting on a block of land south of Adelaide since 1993. Dean’s passion for eucalypts is incredible. It makes me realise that so much conservation happens purely because someone is just absolutely captivated by something. And thank goodness Dean is, because his love for the eucalypt made the Currency Creek Arboretum, which is designed to bring together all of Australia’s eucalypt species in one place for research. Continue reading...