In 2022-23, a vast plume of floodwater from the Murray River delivered thousands of tonnes of organic material to the ocean – and a feeding bonanza began.
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The 2022 floods triggered shifts in the Coorong’s microbiome—similar to our gut bacteria on new diets—revealing why freshwater flows are vital to wetland health.
New research shows how river flows in the once-mighty Murrumbidgee have dwindled over time, leaving the floodplain high and dry. But the main culprit is not climate change and we can fix it.
Policy reform is urgently needed to make water use in Australia sustainable, but it won’t be effective unless it’s based on facts.
Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system.
With the support of the Greens, there’s a chance the ‘Restoring Our Rivers’ Bill will pass. Will it be enough to put the Murray-Darling Basin Plan back on track?
Any plan to dam or extract water from some of Australia’s last wild rivers must carefully consider the consequences. Prawn, mud crab and barramundi fisheries could suffer in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Victoria is planning to engineer wetlands so more water can go to agriculture. It’s not a good plan.
Tree rings are ‘nature’s weather stations’ and reveal far more of the Daly River’s history than scientific records can.
A unique design-science collaboration turns ecological data into an immersive digital portrait of a precious wetland.
The government has chosen a route not backed by evidence, and which will deliver a bad deal to taxpayers and the environment.
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Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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PhD candidate, UNSW
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Australian National University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Marine Ecologist, CSIRO
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Design, School of Art and Design, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences., UNSW
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Director, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists & Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW
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Professor - Australian Rivers Institute, and Dean - Research Infrastructure, Griffith University
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Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney