Stage 5 Environmental Change: Riverine Environments

More than 200 barriers were taken down last year, helping to restore fish migration routes and boost biodiversity and climate resilience

An underwater garden being planted in Sydney Harbour at Barangaroo uses 3D concrete tiles that aim to mimic and revitalise marine habitats destroyed by development and a "legacy of pollution".

A section of a creek in Melbourne’s outer east, hidden away for more than half a century, has sprung back to life thanks to our Reimagining Your Creek program and project partners Knox City Council.
This is the latest project of our Reimagining your Creek program to be delivered, which aims to restore some of Melbourne's creeks and waterways into accessible and environmental spaces. Residents and community groups had been instrumental in reviving and revitalising the creek through sharing thoughts and ideas to the vision and design.

The newly daylighted section of Blind Creek restores biodiversity and creates an experience for residents and visitors to truly enjoy and interact with nature!

Fisheries managers arrived too late to save more of the endangered species as heavy rain washes ash into NSW rivers, robbing fish of oxygen

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Gary Bencheghib has been helping to tackle Bali’s plastic problem for 10 years. Now, he’s going to Davos to launch his latest plan to clean rivers on the island – and around the world.

Platypus are emerging as the silent victim in wildlife crisis due to drought and bushfires

The Colorado River serves over 35 million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta

Warming waters and a series of dams are making the grueling migration of the Chinook salmon even more deadly — and threatening dozens of other species.

There's a link between expanding irrigation industries, fish kills in Menindee Lakes and an internationally recognised wetland hundreds of kilometres away.

Growing up next to Tāngonge, a wetland in the far north of New Zealand, has given stormwater engineer Troy Brockbank a lifelong passion for water and a desire to bring a Te ao Māori (Indigenous Māori worldview) to helping protect it.

Episode 18 - Why science and people matter for Australian rivers

Model maker Gary McGuigan’s latest project is an interactive model of the Mulloon Catchment, illustrating landscape rehydration strategies which have transformed the landscape.

The Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics in the world, a study says.

Healthy and sustainable riverine ecosystems, an example of ecosystem services!

For the 280 million people from 11 countries who live along the banks of the Nile, it symbolises life. For Ethiopia, a new dam holds the promise of much-needed electricity; for Egypt, the fear of a devastating water crisis.

The Mekong River is increasingly being used to generate hydro-electricity but residents downstream say the dams are causing water levels to rise and fall dramatically, leading to the changing of an ecosystem that sustains millions of people.

Fire debris flowing into waterways following heavy rain will exacerbate the impact of bushfires on fish and other aquatic life.

And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long

Freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy makes a plea to politicians and the public, urging them to trust that the people who study water quality know what they’re talking about.

Imagine you had just stepped onto a plane, and the captain’s voice came over the intercom. “We’ve been held back from take-off

Maintaining water flows in Australia’s northern rivers is essential to conserve the diversity of freshwater fishes and the health of …

Not all rivers are suitable for swimming – there are sharks and other flesh eating animals to contend with in some places – but the benefits of a healthy river range much further with improvements to the ecology, heat island effect and recreational opportunities.