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A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the Murray-Darling Basin but bad for the reef.
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.
We sampled 118 rivers and creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. Here’s what we found.
Australia’s beloved billabongs and waterholes are in danger of filling up with eroded soil from farms, leaving little room for the aquatic animals that depend on these vital drought refuges.
The new Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council aims to overcome a management problem faced by many traditional owners: the fact that major rivers flow through lands home to many different groups and languages.
A new millennium-long record reveals that Australia has suffered longer droughts and wet periods than those recorded in the past century’s weather observations.
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Palaeoclimatologist, Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Griffith University
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Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Associate Professor – Hydroclimatology, University of Newcastle
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Ecosystem Science & Water Research Laboratory, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, specialising in water quality, Monash University
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Senior lecturer of Environmental Engineering, Australian National University
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Professor of Water Science, Liverpool John Moores University