New climate records shows droughts and floods happened more often in Brisbane's past than currently believed
Brisbane’s next big flood or drought may come sooner than we think
Category: Rivers
Listening to rivers can improve freshwater biological diversity
May 22 is the International Day for Biological Diversity and researchers at the Australian Rivers Institute are trying to better protect freshwater biodiversity
Groundwater sustains plants and animals in intermittent streams
Groundwater is being extracted at unsustainable levels worldwide but we still don’t fully understand the implications for the life that depends on this diminishing water source. But our research is changing this explains Dr Ryan Burrows
Can planting trees help save fish from climate change?
Restoring riparian habitats can offset stream warming and help protect a threatened Australian fish species
River drying explains biodiversity
New paper finds drying of rivers is a key predictor of where biodiversity occurs
When streams dry, do important ecological processes still occur?
The sediment beneath a rivers surface can be a ‘hotspot’ of organic carbon decomposition, even when the surface water dries“ explains Dr Ryan Burrows.
Water and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In 2015, the United Nations new development goals, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were brought into effect (http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html). The SDGs seek to achieve substantial country-level improvements across 17 broad development goals. The aim is that by 2030, all countries will need to measure and report on their progress towards achieving 169 separate sustainable [...]
Social and Ecohydrological Science Connections for Environmental Flows
ARI members attend a workshop on an interdisciplinary approach to Environmental Flows
Networks of habitats increase the vulnerability of migratory species to climate change
Migratory species face a double jeopardy from climate change
Adaptation for people and planet – Are we thinking about adapting to a new climate, or resisting the change?
By Dr Wade Hadwen Australian Rivers Institute and Griffith Climate Change Response Program Anthropogenically-forced climate change represents a major challenge to both the human and natural world. Given the rate of change and the inertia in the global climate system, there is a pressing need to address the major challenges that climate change poses – [...]
Catchment to Coast 