The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin are dying. While average inflows decline due to climate change, extractions for irrigation remain at environmentally damaging levels. But the plan for management ...

The pollution of key riverways and broader environmental degradation has again come into focus. In March, the largest in a series of mass fish kill incidents to date took place on the Darling River ...

The lower Murray River has been designated critically endangered by the Albanese government as it blasted the environmental ...

Locals say they are too scared to swim in the river at Menindee due to its poor health. A recent report by the Darling Baaka River Health project finds its degraded condition is largely due to ...

It’s easy to point the finger of blame at government, farmers and the drought, but complex science lies behind the mass deaths of fish and other aquatic life in the Darling River. It was right here on ...

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 ...

A New South Wales-first oxygenation trial aims to address dissolved oxygen levels in the Darling River that have contributed to large-scale fish deaths in recent years. WaterNSW recently commenced its ...

Jamie Pittock is affiliated with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and a number of other non-governmental environment organisations. In the past he has received funding from the National ...