Mick Keelty’s review urges governments to stop playing politics with the basin and calls for greater transparency on water sharing The amount of water in the Murray river system is now only about half of what it was […]
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Jet stream appears to have stopped moving south and may be moving back towards normal International cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state after decades of human-caused disruption, a […]
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Report advises Australia to maintain drought preparations, even in times of normal rainfall Drought is not a natural disaster and must be accepted as an enduring feature of the Australian landscape which climate change is only going to […]
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Indian Ocean dipole events, linked to bushfires and floods, are becoming stronger and more frequent, scientists say Global heating is “supercharging” an increasingly dangerous climate mechanism in the Indian Ocean that has played a role in disasters this […]
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Farmers in Mallee Hill and Mount Short in the state’s south have run out of water after months of drought. Two areas of Western Australia have been declared “water deficient” and will have supplies trucked in by the […]
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Giving irrigators a licence to divert huge volumes of water is a recipe for disaster, opponents say. Aboriginal groups, graziers, environmental groups and the former commonwealth environmental water holder have urged the New South Wales water minister to […]
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‘If you think this is bad,’ say locals of recent mass fish kills, ‘just wait until the Menindee Lakes project goes ahead’ On the banks of the Darling, near Menindee, two grown men are fighting back tears. It’s […]
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NSW National Parks staff are preparing to rally outside NSW parliament over job losses in the parks service The quality of Sydney’s water supply could be put at risk by a decision to axe a specialist team of […]
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Opponents of plan to dump waste from coal seam gas mining celebrate court decision Controversial plans to dump up to 15m tonnes of salt and other waste near a creek in drought-stricken Queensland have hit an unexpected roadblock […]
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Australia Institute report find communities, graziers, small irrigators and native title holders are being left behind A new report looking at how the $13bn for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is being spent has found that big agribusiness is […]
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Australians should brace for a dry, hot summer, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with no relief for drought-stricken farmers. The bureau’s climate outlook for November to January, released on Friday, says there is an 80% chance temperatures […]
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A group of prominent scientists and economists have issued a stark warning to the nation’s politicians: the Murray-Darling basin plan is failing to achieve environmental goals and is a “gross waste” of money. The group of seven economists […]
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