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

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 ...

Millions of fish that appeared floating dead in the waters of an Australian river this week are now being removed by authorities in a massive clean-up effort. The huge carpet of dead fish appeared in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The findings are simply unacceptable for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing. Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate ...

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 ...