The $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan will not be completed on time, according to official advice from the Basin Authority, prompting federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek to conclude, "we have ...

Eleven years on, and billions of dollars later, amendments to the 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan are set to pass through federal parliament. In September, the federal government introduced legislation ...

Jamie Pittock received funding for research in the Basin from the former National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. He is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and a ...

A report card into the A$13 billion Murray–Darling Basin Plan has found much work is needed to ensure the ecology of Australia’s largest river system is properly restored. The assessment, by the ...

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

The Murray Darling Basin is, for so many, a precious commodity, home to 35 endangered animal species, 120 different kinds of waterbirds, and over 30,000 wetlands. The basin has also been described as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has extended the deadline indefinitely on the $13 billion plan to restore Australia’s ...

CANBERRA, Australia — The latest phase in a long process to adopt new water use regulations for the ailing Murray-Darling Basin has pitted states against states and environmentalists against ...

New legislation extends the timeframe of the plan for three years and removes a cap on water buy-backs to support the river system’s health. Here are the details After years of gridlock there was a ...

On the day the trucks took away Meghan Campbell’s cows, she wept. Campbell, 23 at the time, had helped build her family’s herd of 500 dairy cattle since grade school. She ordered her first cow embryos ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council under the Linkage Program, including contributions from the NSW Government. Richard Kingsford receives funding from the ARC Research Council ...

A landmark 30-year-long study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray-Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in ...