Last week’s Murray-Darling Basin report laid many problems bare for all to see. But it also exposed an affordable solution to its ongoing problems, writes Tyler Rotche. Slowly but perhaps only ...

"Australia was going to run out of water." An historic decision taken today to restore Australia's greatest river system recognizes how profoundly important freshwater is to the country's future.

A community landcare group in Victoria’s northwest has initiated legal action against what it claims is an “unlawful” environmental project in Australia’s southeastern Murray-Darling Basin. The ...

Flooding in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of temporary flood conditions. Scientists have now ...

Soaring temperatures forecast for this week are likely to kill off even more fish in the Darling River system, as an emergency meeting has been called to deal with the ecological disaster. The Bureau ...

From the Murray-Darling system to Great Artesian Basin, ‘invisible’ underground groundwater is often the only water supply available across the vast majority Australia where its annual contribution to ...

YABBIES, FRESHWATER lobsters native to Australia, thrive in the outback for a reason. They can tolerate high temperatures and drought, and need hardly any oxygen in their water. Yet even for them the ...