A small Australian town has been inundated with millions of putrid-smelling dead fish following a mass-dying event. The phenomenon is ongoing in the Darling River in the town of Menindee, which is ...

Millions of fish that appeared floating dead in the waters of an Australian river this week are now being removed by authorities in a massive clean-up effort. The huge carpet of dead fish appeared in ...

When it was clear the Murray-Darling Basin Plan could not be completed on time, Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek announced a new agreement (without Victoria) to deliver in full the plan’s aim of ...

Labor has demanded an investigation into the state’s water management system following the deaths of up to a million fish in the Darling River. This comes after former Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham ...

correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly included carp in a list of fish species native to Australia. Carp were brought to the country and are an invasive species. The article has been ...

At 2,500 km long, the Murray is Australia’s longest river. It provides 3 million people with drinking water and irrigates around 1.5 million hectares of farmland. But this intensive use has come at a ...

An alarming fish kill on the Darling River at Menindee in outback New South Wales, Australia shows what is believed to be as many as a million dead fish. Menindee, a town of about 500 people, is ...