This chapter undertakes a close reading of two Australian eco-novels that explicitly address the potential future impact of climate change on Australian habitats and communities in specific geographical locations. Mireille Juchau’s The World Without Us (2015) and Catherine McKinnon’s Storyland (2017) explore the passing of time in places ravaged by environmental catastrophe and feature what I term “habitat stories”—collaborative stories told through both nonhuman and human experiences that encourage deeper connections between the two, with a particular focus on how different vegetations both enable and challenge white settler-Australian belonging in a time of climate emergency. McKinnon’s work depicts the changing habitats and community of a specific coastal location—Lake Illawarra—across many generations. Similarly, Juchau’s work portrays the devastating impact of logging and mining economies on a rural rainforest town and its inhabitants. This chapter focuses on the role of habitat, local community and settler-colonial cultural change in addressing the impacts of climate crisis on the human and nonhuman. Significantly, these novels both challenge and advance problematic settler-colonial perspectives of nature and the nonhuman and thus represent a shift in the way non-Indigenous Australian authors are depicting settler-colonial relations with the nonhuman.