Flooding in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of temporary flood conditions. Australian scientists have ...

A protest camp on the banks of the Murray River enters its sixth week as traditional owners and locals fight a plan to return water to nine flood plains they say will kill trees and wildlife.

This year marks a decade since the end of the Millennium Drought, when flood waters reached the mouth of the River Murray in 2010. For 1,200 days prior, Australia’s most iconic river had ceased ...

For decades, the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin have been heavily regulated by dams and irrigation networks. As a result, the volume of water entering the ocean is about 60% smaller than 100 years ...

Yet the federal, NSW, Victorian and South Australian governments have failed to set aside the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to replace the weirs and other river infrastructure. A battle is ...

Scorching temperatures coupled with dry conditions brought on by the El Nino weather pattern have spawned a massive bloom of blue-green algae in the Murray River, Australia’s longest. The algae ...

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

Australia’s Murray River Organics has called in administrators, suggesting it failed to attract “expressions of interest” under strategic options put forward last year. KPMG has been appointed as ...

NSW Police are investigating the death of a man who was found in the Murray River.