River project catches ‘surprising creature’ on camera
A program aimed at addressing declining river health is having impacts on the wider environment and community, with surprising flow-on effects.
A program aimed at addressing declining river health is having impacts on the wider environment and community, with surprising flow-on effects.
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has identified a drying climate as a key risk factor for Australia's largest river system and the people who depend on it.
Australia's newest exotic pest has invaded the Brisbane River and yet the authorities have decided to not eradicate it. Experts reveal what that could lead to.
A highly invasive clam has been found in Australia for the first time and it could be bad news for river health and water infrastructure.
The Albanese government has secured the support of the final crossbench senator it needs to get its contentious Murray-Darling Basin laws over the line.
The CSIRO is testing a new system on the Great Barrier Reef that could one day pump out water quality forecasts, much like weather reports.
Ecologists want Australians to look for platypuses in their local rivers and creeks to help plug knowledge gaps about the declining species.
Victoria's refusal to sign up to the new Murray-Darling Basin plan has set the scene for an awkward joint press conference between two Labor governments.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is in "trouble", after timelines to return water to the system were extended.
The timeline to recover water for Australia's most complex river system has been pushed back with the government on track to miss the initial deadline.
Specialist crews are being sent to Menindee in outback NSW to remove dead fish from the Darling-Bakaa after the biggest mass in living memory.
The CSIRO is hoping a biological control agent will wage a campaign of death and destruction against an invasive plant released in Australia in the 1960s.
The discovery of hatchlings belonging to an endangered NSW turtle species has elated ecologists after a succession of natural disasters hit their only habitat.
Colonies of ibis, egrets, herons, swans and ducks have been observed breeding in wetlands across eastern Australia after record-breaking floods.
Emergency responders helped a pregnant woman whose waters had broken get to hospital after the NSW town of Forbes was cut in two by floodwaters.
Polluted and neglected, the rivers that run through Australia's biggest cities are being transformed from barren drains to crucial wildlife habitats.
Researchers have used a DNA analysis to find a "bum breathing" turtle last seen more than 25 years ago in a north Queensland river.
A top Queensland scientist has warned of mass dugong and turtle deaths in coming months as smothered food sources vanish.
Scientists say a bizarre government pact with no expiry date has robbed the Snowy River of the water it needs to cope with the hydro power scheme.