A $13 billion plan to rescue Australia’s most important rivers is being “actively destroyed” by the NSW and Victorian governments, which refuse to ensure water flows high enough to keep floodplains and forests alive, leading scientists say. The […]
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The Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas (GDE Atlas) now includes new regional-scale mapping for parts of New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. The web application also has a fresh look with new functionality including powerful searches and new […]
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Of the water that makes it into our rivers, how much goes to the landscape, how much goes to the atmosphere, how much is extracted for consumptive use and how much flows out to sea? The Australian Water […]
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The Bureau’s Water in Australia 2015–16 report shows that reserves in storages declined by seven per cent during the 2015–16 year. Despite annual rainfall being near average, it fell at the wrong time of year in many areas so reserves […]
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The Copernicus Regional Data Hub is a world-leading program to share imagery from the European Sentinel satellites with the South-East Asian region. An agreement between the Australian Government (through Geoscience Australia) and the European Commission finalised in May 2016 is […]
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Thunderstorms are set to become more intense throughout the tropics and subtropics this century as a result of climate change, according to new research. Thunderstorms are among nature’s most spectacular phenomena, producing lightning, heavy rainfall, and sometimes awe-inspiring cloud […]
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The job of monitoring Earth’s carbon cycle and humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions is increasingly supported from above, thanks to the terabytes of data pouring down to Earth from satellites. Five papers published in Science today provide data from NASA’s Orbiting […]
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King Billy pines don’t really look all that impressive — they’re not the biggest, prettiest or widest of trees — but they can tell us a lot about our history. Athrotaxis selaginoides, known as King Billy or King […]
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Increased focus on dynamic modelling in our agricultural decision support tools, rather than the traditional statistical analysis will continue to improve Australia’s long-term forecasting systems. That’s the good news on the forecasting front, according to CSIRO senior climate […]
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A new study led by ANU has warned that Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50 degree Celsius days under the Paris Agreement global warming limit of 2 degrees. Lead researcher Dr Sophie Lewis said the study assessed […]
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Did you know that there are 7 things about farm dams that people often overlook? 1 – Farm dams are important for economic growth Farm dams play a critical role in agriculture worldwide. They provide secure annual water supply for consumptive purposes including irrigation, […]
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Researchers have hit upon an alternative to the well-known alternatives to fossil fuels: evaporation. A team of scientists from Columbia University in New York City has estimated that energy harnessed from water evaporating from U.S. reservoirs and lakes with a surface […]
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Australia will create its own space agency in an attempt to cash in on a $420 billion aeronautical industry and create thousands of new jobs. Most developed nations have a space agency, including New Zealand, and there are concerns Australia […]
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Misleading attacks on Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology by climate deniers in the Australian are “debilitating” to the agency and limiting its ability to predict risks and protect the community, the former head of the bureau has told the Guardian. […]
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Rockets, astronomy and humans on Mars: there’s a lot of excited talk about space and what new discoveries might come if Australia’s federal government commits to expanding Australia’s space industry. But one space industry is often left out of the conversation: Earth […]
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The work of producing meteorological ensemble forecasts started 25 years ago at ECMWF and NCEP, and it sparked a revolution in both weather forecasts and its many applications. To celebrate this occasion, more than 100 people from across […]
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An independent report into allegations of water theft and corruption in the Murray-Darling Basin has recommended fundamental reforms to the system. Solutions suggested in the report focus on the state of New South Wales, and involve metered pumps and […]
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Winter rains are in decline across southern Australia, and while it is too early to say beyond doubt it is due to climate change, scientists say it is not just about climate variability. According to the Bureau of […]
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Water—or the lack of it!—is always a topic of interest to Australians, living and working as we do on the driest inhabited continent on Earth. TERN’s integrated ecosystem-observing infrastructure produces open data on multiple phenomena at the same […]
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Following extensive analysis, the final region of the National Water Account 2016, the Murray–Darling Basin report is now available, along with a national overview and video summarising the 2015–16 account. The National Water Account gives detailed insight into Australia’s water situation for the previous financial year across […]
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