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 ...

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 ...

Each year, it seems a little harder to find original expeditions, but Alan Davison's 6,800km kayak journey through the ...

The NSW Government's plan to prosecute alleged water theft on the Barwon-Darling River has been met with scepticism from lower Darling landholders. Earlier this week WaterNSW said it would take five ...

At a campground on the banks of the Darling River, the sun rises as 23 paddlers prepare to pack their tents into kayaks, and push off downstream. They are halfway through a 10-day journey along one of ...

Darling River fish kills are set to continue as the NSW Government spends $25m on business cases, rather than a permanent fishway. To date all the government has done is contract the installation of a ...

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

Environmental authorities blamed the mass deaths on low levels of oxygen in Australia's second-largest river amid elevated temperatures. This is the third mass die-off in the area since 2018. The ABC ...

Lee Baumgartner manages a suite of research projects that receive funding from various Australian government departments, the Ian Potter Foundation and National Geographic Society. Max Finlayson has ...