"The $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan has made the situation for the Darling worse." Farmers outraged over water crisis. > VIEW VIDEO Uploaded 8 March 2019. SOURCE: @NITVAustralia
Environment
Environmental issues in the Capital region and surrounds.
Five gifs that explain how hydro actually works
By Roger Dargaville, Monash University PEOPLE HAVE USED moving water to create energy for thousands of years. Today, pumped hydro is the most common form of grid-connected energy storage in the world. This technology is in the spotlight because it pairs so well with solar and wind renewable energy. During the day,
States’ bloody war on wildlife: this month it’s ducks
Climate disruption claims Ringtail Possums
As Melbourne sweltered through late summer temperatures in the mid- to high-30s and bushfires raged in the east of Victoria, on the Mornington Peninsula Ringtail Possums showed what climate disruption was started doing to our native wildlife which cannot cope with a string of high temperature days — just as
Video-of-the-Week: Koalas driven to drink by climate change
> VIEW VIDEO (University of Sydney) The back-story ... 'They don't drop dead': Thirsty koalas flock to Blinky drinkers By Julie Power, Sydney Morning Herald September 14, 2018 WHEN A BRUTAL four-day heat wave killed 25 percent of the koala population near Gunnedah, NSW, in 2009, nobody knew why. Koalas were believed not to
Video-of-the-Week: Peter FitzSimons on ABC’s The Drum
Have you wondered where the environment minister has been during the Murray-Darling basin disaster? “If a million dead fish at Menindee doesn't attract your attention as the environment minister, what does it take?” Peter FitzSimons questions where Melissa Price has been during the mass fish kill in the Murray-Darling basin. > VIEW FACEBOOK
Who ‘owned’ the Darling these past years?
River managed for export crops — too bad fish, birds, graziers, communities THE Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission was an opportunity for numerous organisations and citizens to share their concerns about the way the inland river system was being managed. Here’s a flavor of what they saw. RUBY DAVIES GREW up alongside the
LABOR’s pledge for Darling River, NSW Nationals in hot seat
Where do we go when the river runs dry?
Fossil-fuel chickens coming home to roost
WITH FIRES BURNING up the Tasmanian World Heritage highlands; ‘one-in-a- hundred-year’ rainfall stubbornly sticking to Townsville causing widespread flooding to homes, nearby dying reefs; unprecedented heat-waves in parts of south-eastern Australia — including right here in the capital region — the Darling River vomiting dead fish; and farmers everywhere more