Mercury News: Anger grows in Australia as the Darling River dries up
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 ...
Circle of Blue: Australia Plans to Eliminate Invasive Carp From Murray-Darling River Basin
Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...
Water flows in mainland Australia’s most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, have been declining for the past 50 years. The trend has largely been blamed on water extraction, but our new ...
"Australia was going to run out of water." An historic decision taken today to restore Australia's greatest river system recognizes how profoundly important freshwater is to the country's future.
The Conversation: Excessive water extractions, not climate change, are most to blame for the Darling River drying
You may recall when, at the height of summer in 2019, more than a million fish floated to the surface of the Darling River’s Menindee Lakes. Iconic Murray cod and silver perch were among the dead. A ...