A leading CSIRO scientist has called on Australia's agricultural scientists, educators and industries to rise to the emerging challenges facing global food security.
As the nation's water resources run low, a new technology for detecting toxic heavy metals in water has opened the way for safer use of groundwater and recycling.
New technology developed by Environmental Biotechnology CRC researchers provides water quality field-test results in minutes, better than current more time-consuming laboratory-based techniques.
A new tender to purchase water entitlements to help restore the health of Murray-Darling Basin rivers and wetlands will open next Monday, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, announced today.
Climate change has robbed Western Australia of a sustainable underground water supply and WA must start regarding its underground water as a minable commodity.
The federal and state governments have been urged to establish an independent advisory panel of expert geoscientists to provide a high-level 'early warning system' for environmental crises.
The Queensland Government's management of floodplains on the environmentally important Paroo River has been called into question by a new study by UNSW researchers.
New research by the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre has found that remote Aboriginal communities are much better at managing their water supply to keep it safe and clean if they are given
The Rudd Government today announced a new tender to purchase water in the Queensland section of the Murray-Darling Basin to return to our rivers.
A million litres of water, 500 tonnes of gravel and a wave machine the size of a two-storey building are being used by scientists to simulate a full-scale 'beach' within the laboratory.