The crucial scheme to restore the waterways and environment across a massive swathe of the country is behind schedule — ...

Controversial new legislation could secure critical water supplies for delicate ecosystems while delivering benefits to the Murray-Darling Basin's agricultural sector, a leading river ecologist says.

An El Niño event is likely in the coming months. It's impact on Australian farmers isn't certain, but the timing is ...

Australia is a country on the brink of a water crisis. Understanding why water is scarce and where the water goes will be ...

Hundreds of turtles are thriving near an outback NSW town, only months after the lake where they live was on the verge of drying up.

At 2,500 km long, the Murray is Australia’s longest river. It provides 3 million people with drinking water and irrigates around 1.5 million hectares of farmland. But this intensive use has come at 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 ...

The basic elements of an ­inland NSW drought are straightforward enough. First the rain stops and then, very gradually, so does everything else. This is where we stand with the Darling River now.