The susceptibility of vegetation to wildfire depends on its water content relative to its dry mass: the live fuel moisture content (LFMC). The higher the LFMC, the longer vegetation will take to ignite and for wildfire to spread. […]
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The FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 constellation, launched this June, will provide the most accurate data yet on tropical weather, climate, and space weather. In the dark, early morning hours of 25 June 2019, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched a constellation […]
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In Australia, dead kangaroos and a scandal called Watergate are results of flawed plan for water market Australia’s Darling River was once filled with fleets of paddle steamers carrying wool to ships bound for England. For nearly two […]
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Cliche sensitive citizens might be experiencing politician-induced nausea after Water Minister David Littleproud’s branding of new the new Murray Darling Basin Inspector General Mick Keelty as the new “tough cop on the beat”. But the new water compliance […]
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Winter still has a few days to run, but it’s highly likely to be one of Australia’s warmest and driest on record. While final numbers will be crunched once August ends, this winter will probably rank among the […]
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There’s broad support from communities and farmers for proper water audits. John/Flickr, CC BY-SA In the wake of a damning royal commission and an ABC Four Corners investigation, the federal government has created an Inspector General for the […]
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Sydney and Melbourne face rising threats to their water supplies from climate change as higher temperatures diminish inflows while pushing up demand, according to new research. A paper published by Environment Research Letters shows a “substantially” amplified risk […]
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A new study has found that South Australia’s droughts are getting worse, becoming longer and more severe. Professor Simon Beecham, UniSA’s Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Innovation, led the study and drew on data from his Goyder Institute […]
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The latest report card evaluating the use of water for the environment at key sites along the Murray River shows a solid improvement at most sites over the past 10 years. Murray–Darling Basin Authority Chief Executive, Phillip Glyde, […]
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Current Australian drought policy aims to promote preparedness and resilience in favour of costly disaster-relief based strategies. Recent conditions have highlighted a shortfall in this approach, with Federal Government aid contributions exceeding $1 billion near the end of […]
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A significant advance in the world’s ability to forecast and monitor weather and climate is about to be launched into space and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has booked its seat. COSMIC-2, a mission of six satellites designed to […]
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Inland towns need far more water storage. Flickr/Mertie, CC BY-SA The federal parliament has voted to funnel A$200 million to drought-stricken areas. What exactly this money will be spent on is still under consideration, but the majority will […]
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Measuring how much water falls from the sky is more complicated than it seems. To improve measurements, researchers are looking at umbrellas, hydrophones, and gamma ray detectors. How much did we get today? It seems like a simple […]
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Water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin have reached their highest levels since the worst of the Millennium drought more than a decade ago. These high water prices are causing much anxiety in the region, and have led […]
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The ongoing drought through the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) is now the worst on record according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). Speaking during a BOM seminar on climate, BOM climatologist David Jones said the drought had now […]
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Data from new satellites reveal the alarming extent of the recent drought in Australia and confirms a significant loss of ice in Antarctica, say ANU scientists. Dr Paul Tregoning, whose team developed software to process the first publicly […]
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Across large parts of Australia and the world flood magnitudes have decreased while rainfalls have increased. Our recently published research explains this apparent paradox: soils (or antecedent conditions) are becoming drier before it rains, meaning that, when it […]
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Australia has just experienced its hottest summer on record as well as a succession of climate extremes. Currently, a vast area of New South Wales is drought-affected. Floods have devastated vast sections of Queensland while bushfires and cyclones […]
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Internal CSIRO correspondence reveals the science agency was pushed to formally accept the Federal Government’s approval of Adani’s water plans in a single afternoon. Despite the Government saying Australia’s top science agencies “confirmed” Adani’s water plans had “met […]
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