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Plans are in motion for community and government to come together and explore options for the future of the Murie Creek, near Condobolin. Known as the Murie Creek Project, the collaboration sees the team, including Aboriginal staff, from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy and the Environment (DCCEEW) working with First Nations communities. The aim

Repeat years of rain have turned parched expanses lush and green, providing breeding and feeding grounds for fish and birds.

Repeat years of rain have turned parched expanses lush and green, providing breeding and feeding grounds for fish and birds.

Back-to-back years of La Niña rains have created ideal breeding conditions for the Australian Pelican, a much-loved bird we know surprisingly little about.

Scientists are urging that major dam projects in NSW and Queensland be abandoned, warning of significant environmental and agricultural consequences.

Advertisement The Murray-Darling Basin’s biggest dam project needs 80 per cent of its costs to be subsidised by governments given its “small net benefits” and large cost, a leaked NSW cabinet document reveals. The 2019 Coalition election commitment to raise Wyangala Dam’s wall 10 metres was “a significant project” but one that would do little to improve water security in the Lachlan Valley, the Department of Industry’s assessment for the returned government st...

Battle over Wyangala Dam and its downstream impacts is just beginning We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size On a summer’s evening, as the setting sun paints a flock of straw-necked ibises a glowing pink as they wing their way over Lake Cowal, it’s not hard to imagine Mal Carnegie has landed a dream job. As manager of a conservation centre monitoring NSW’s largest inland natural freshwater lake, the 56-ye...