Swarms of slimy gray fish are clogging up irrigation water filters in Australia thanks to a flood-triggered boom in their population. "#BreakingNews another unprecedented boom in class 1 noxious pest ...

MENINDEE, Australia – Reduced to a string of stagnant mustard-colored pools, fouled in places with pesticide runoff and stinking with the rotting carcasses of cattle and fish, the Darling River is ...

MENINDEE, Australia (Reuters) - Reduced to a string of stagnant mustard-coloured pools, fouled in places with pesticide runoff and stinking with the rotting carcasses of cattle and fish, the Darling ...

Lee Baumgartner manages a suite of research projects that receive funding from various Australian government departments, the Ian Potter Foundation and National Geographic Society. Max Finlayson has ...

The recent discovery of hundreds of thousands of dead fish in far-western New South Wales (NSW) has prompted renewed questions about the management of Australia’s scarce water resources. The fish were ...

Cubbie Station, the largest privately owned irrigation property in the southern hemisphere, has been accused of stealing precious water from the Darling River catchment area. An unannounced visit from ...

The pollution of key riverways and broader environmental degradation has again come into focus. In March, the largest in a series of mass fish kill incidents to date took place on the Darling River ...

Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...

A thin winter green carpets Australia's southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation's food bowl. Sheep and cattle farmer Ian Shippen stands in a dying ...

Quentin Grafton is a signatory of the Murray-Darling Declaration. He received funding from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority in 2010. John Williams does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

The Murray-Darling Basin Declaration was signed on February 5 by 12 eminent scientists and economists — Quentin Grafton, Darla Hatton MacDonald, David Paton, Graham Harris, Henning Bjornlund, Jeffery ...