Millenium Drought News Today

Decades-long "megadroughts" could hit Australia, including our biggest agricultural region, in the near fut...

Sean Dooley ponders which Australian birds are the most elusive and narrows it down to 10.

Little penguins (Eudyptula minor) aren’t looking likely to be added to Australia’s list of threatened species any time soon.

South-east Queensland does not have enough drinking water to cater for its booming population, while the region could face mandatory restrictions in just months.

Share The Millennium Drought was between 2001 – 2010, with the worst period between 2007 and 2010 with no freshwater flow from the River Murray to the Coorong and ocean. This stopped the migration of adult lamprey from the Southern Ocean to the River Murray, where the lampreys return to their own birthplace to breed, lay eggs and then die. There were no freshwater flows to the ocean from the River Murray at the Lower Murray barrages for almost three years, Adrienne Rumbelow from the Departm...

Aspen Journalism Lake Powell is seen in a November 2019 aerial photo from the nonprofit EcoFlight. Keeping enough water in the reservoir to support downstream users in Arizona, Nevada and California is complicated by climate change, as well as projections that the upper basin states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico will use as much as 40% more water than current demand. A recent white paper from a lineup of river experts calls those use projections into question. (Photo courtesy EcoFli...