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‘It’s like time-travelling,’ says Dr Rebecca West – ‘we’re reversing and going back to what it would have been like 200 years ago’

Birds practising kleptoparasitism – harassing each other until they drop their saliva-covered food – seen as ‘plausible pathway’ for arrival of H5N1

Low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water caused up to 20 million fish to die at Menindee last week, authorities said.

Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish…

Floods brought the Macquarie Marshes back to life, but landholders need guaranteed environmental flows to help maintain a healthy marsh ecosystem that also supports businesses

The federal government has announced it will start a new round of water buybacks to help it achieve a key target under the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Wetlands researchers say chicks are hatching in front of them as they marvel at a bird population explosion not seen in decades.

The state government’s previous proposal was slammed by experts as lacking scientific evidence. There are concerns the next iteration is no better

A paper published in an international science journal criticises the government's lack of transparency and community consultation over the Menindee Lakes project unveiled in 2018.