IT is ten years since the launch of the ‘Native Fish Strategy for the Murray Darling Basin 2003-2013’ [1]. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on the program including to re-snag the main channel of the Murray River with microchip … [Read more...] about The Native Fish Strategy for the Murray Darling Ten Years On (Part 1)
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Water Levels in the Swan River Estuary: A Personal Observation
I READ with interest an article in The Fremantle Herald newspaper in which global warming was blamed for rising sea levels, which in turn were said to be submerging the mud flats in the Swan River estuary and thus destroying the habitat of migratory … [Read more...] about Water Levels in the Swan River Estuary: A Personal Observation
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Expensive Water Still in Dams: Barnaby Joyce
Media Release 850 billion litres of water purchased through Federal Government buybacks has not been used according to an Australian Audit Office report, Commonwealth Environmental Watering Activities, released today. This is despite the … [Read more...] about Expensive Water Still in Dams: Barnaby Joyce
Dam Building in Singapore
MANY South Australians, and the Australian government, and the Murray Darling Basin Authority, claim that it is necessary to have barrages across the bottom of the Murray River because of the upstream irrigation industries [1]. There is no … [Read more...] about Dam Building in Singapore
Haven’t Lost Half of the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2, Junk Methodology
HOW could scientists conclude that half of the Great Barrier Reef has been lost in the last 27 years: target coral reefs most affected by cyclones, coral bleaching and crown-of-thorn starfish outbreaks, while ignoring more representative reefs with … [Read more...] about Haven’t Lost Half of the Great Barrier Reef: Part 2, Junk Methodology
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
