Western Australia’s Swan-Canning Estuary is not dying, contrary to recent claims. Researchers from Murdoch University found…
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The movement of desert sands and dust in Northern China is controlled by one of the world’s largest rivers, new research…
**Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by the…
You may be familiar with some of Australia’s more iconic spiny crayfish, such as the giant Murray River crayfish, Euastacus armatus, but there is an untold diversity within this endemic Australian genus…
A continent-wide survey on the health of Europe’s rivers has revealed the way waterways are examined leaves a lot to be desired…
Welcome to the State of the Future series. This series addresses 15 global challenges posed by the Millennium Project, an international non-profit think-tank collecting responses for 40 nodes worldwide…
As I wrote in March, whether the Wild Rivers Act was repealed or prolonged in the wake of the Queensland election, underlying issues concerning the future and politics of Cape York Peninsula would persist…
Water management practices may have more of an effect on fish populations in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin than climate…
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) today released a revised plan that recommends cutting the volume of groundwater to be extracted, in a variety of changes following 20 weeks of consultations. The…
Excessive siltation in Tasmania’s Tamar River has been directly linked to human-induced changes in the tidal system and will…
I’ve been away in the UK for a few years – and what do I find when I come back? In the Murray Darling we are still arguing over inputs (the amount of water to be returned to the river) instead of focusing…
Modern-day Africa was the keystone of Gondwana, the aggregated mass of southern continents that co-existed for nearly 400m years. That supercontinent has since split apart, creating the land masses we…
Water exploding from the Jindabyne Dam into the Snowy River made for compelling viewing in recent TV news reports. As well as being good TV, this water release highlighted the importance of releases in…
Concrete infrastructure in urban environments appears to be altering the chemistry of rainwater flowing into our urban streams…
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