Based on current climate and land conditions, the Murray-Darling basin is reducing in size. The basin is an indication on the effects of desertification occuring across the country. Human conditions ...

The Europeans who descended on the slopes of the Murray-Darling Basin—a vast semiarid plain about the size of Spain and France combined—were lulled by a string of mid-19th-century wet years ...

It’s hoped this will help the fish reproduce and survive ... the outcome of compounding challenges in managing the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’s largest inland river system.

Widespread flooding across the southern Murray-Darling Basin in 2010–11 led to a "hypoxic ... depleting levels of oxygen and causing mass deaths of both fish and crayfish. Then another Murray ...

"We've seen water bird populations decline overall in the Murray Darling Basin by about sixty percent. We've also seen an increase in the frequency of fish kills several in Menindi lakes in the ...

The recent rush to announce water purchases to boost Murray Darling Basin environmental flows, have come in the lead-up to a May 3 federal election in which Labor is trying to win over South ...

The waters of the Murray-Darling Basin support most of Australia's irrigated ... helping maintain habitat for fish, waterbirds and the plants and invertebrates they eat. While other catchments ...

While fishing competitions around the country attempt to lower the number of pests, there's one thing Australians should NOT ...

The Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism is a policy built into the Murray Darling Basin Plan that oversees decisions made on water allocation. The political compromise is the amount ...

Human activity has a great impact on the desertification of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. The environmental factors are Australia's annual averages, which do not vary much within a decade. The ...

In March 2023, thousands of dead fish washed up at Menindee's main weir on the Baaka. Samara Anderson/AAP These events are the outcome of compounding challenges in managing the Murray-Darling Basin, ...