More than 12 months after a human skull was discovered on the banks of Australia's longest river, investigations remain ...

Flooding in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of temporary flood conditions. Australian scientists have ...

Human impacts on the Lower Lakes of the Murray River estuary have made its ecosystem more vulnerable to drought, according to findings by University of Sydney geoscientists. The new science shows that ...

This year marks a decade since the end of the Millennium Drought, when flood waters reached the mouth of the River Murray in 2010. For 1,200 days prior, Australia’s most iconic river had ceased ...

Sue Preston experiences the Murray River in a way few travellers ever do. Hike wild, remote bush by day, and return to the comfort of your luxury houseboat by night. Shouldering our day packs on the ...

Scorching temperatures coupled with dry conditions brought on by the El Nino weather pattern have spawned a massive bloom of blue-green algae in the Murray River, Australia’s longest. The algae ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The Murray River was listed as critically endangered on August 5, the day before the Australian federal government went into ...

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

Yet the federal, NSW, Victorian and South Australian governments have failed to set aside the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to replace the weirs and other river infrastructure. A battle is ...

The Murray River is Australia’s longest river at approximately 1,500 miles (2,500 kilometers). Flowing from the Australian Alps to the windswept South Australian coast near Goolwa, its waters irrigate ...