Federal funding for advanced climate modelling has cheered scientists who say the investment will help refine predictions for everything from fire-generated thunderstorms to worsening urban heat islands. Buried in this year’s budget was the provision of $7.6 million […]
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Analysis by researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have found areas in the Murray-Darling Basin suitable for long term underground water storage and could help build drought resilience. Water banking – known more technically as managed aquifer […]
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An international review of IPCC reports since 2001 has found that as the science has improved with each report, a trend has appeared showing climate-related impacts like heatwaves, the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet and coral […]
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If you’ve ever logged on to a website or bought something online, you’ve probably had to do a reCAPTCHA to prove you’re human. reCAPTCHAs are photos of everyday scenes where you have to select all the squares that […]
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The majority of environmental water redirected from irrigators under the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan isn’t being delivered to its intended wetland targets, with private land blocking the connections between rivers and floodplains, new research shows. The research, […]
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Continued warming of Australia’s climate, an increase in extreme fire weather and length of the fire season, declining rainfall in the southeast and southwest of the continent, and rising sea levels are some of the key trends detailed […]
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In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth’s natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Our capacity to predict these changes relies on our […]
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Drought is a slowly evolving phenomenon whose modulating mechanisms stem from complex interactions of atmospheric, land surface and oceanic processes. As drought manifests in different ways, it can be difficult to define. Ideally, the best way to assess […]
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Dryland rivers are inherently variable in terms of their hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology across a range of scales. This variability can make it difficult to disentangle long-term change from natural variability and makes it difficult to assess their […]
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The Murray-Darling Basin has been left without its top cop, with Mick Keelty stepping down after just one year in the newly established office. A Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra has heard Mr Keelty, a former Australian Federal […]
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The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood. Our new study helps to change this. We threw a weather model into reverse and ran it back for 35 […]
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Satellites in space and a network of ground-based sensors could be used to monitor the quality of Australia’s inland waterways, reservoirs and coastal environments. A 12-month scoping study for the new technology is part of a mission under […]
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Citizen scientists from around the world are being asked to help complete Australia’s longest daily weather record. A 170-year-old diary recently unearthed from the National Archives will fill a key gap in Adelaide’s weather history. The uncovered weather […]
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When the clock ticked over to 2020, Australia was in the grip of a brutal drought and unprecedented bushfires. But in the months since, while many of us were indoors avoiding the pandemic, nature has started its slow […]
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Heavy rain in parts of Australia in recent months has raised hopes Australia’s protracted drought is finally over. But determining whether a region has recovered from drought is a complex undertaking. For example, a drought-stricken area may get enough rain that […]
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In the coming years, we are likely to see more extreme weather conditions. We will need new engineering approaches to manage the complex impacts on our water resources, writes Dr Clare Stephens. When we think about climate change, […]
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Goulburn-Murray Water (GMW), Australia’s largest rural water corporation, has teamed up with researchers from the University of Melbourne to improve water forecasting in northern Victoria, to help irrigators with their business planning, cropping and water trading decisions. GMW […]
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NSW’s main irrigator lobby group pressed the Berejiklian government to place the state’s water plans above the federal law and sought to tap water earmarked for the environment. The demands are detailed in a letter obtained by the Herald and The […]
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Since 2012, the Australian Energy and Water Exchanges research initiative (OzEWEX) has sought to foster and support communities of researchers and research users in the fields of water and climate science. This endeavour was underpinned by our 2014-2019 Science Plan and […]
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State Library of South Australia As we slowly emerge from lockdown, local adventures are high on people’s wish lists. You may be planning a trip to the ski fields, or even the nearby hills to revel in the […]
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