Research from Macquarie University has revealed a gloomy future for Australia’s river network with dramatic impacts predicted for people, industries and wildlife owing to climate change. In an article published in Scientific Reports, Macquarie University’s Wetlands in Drylands researchers Zacchary Larkin, Tim Ralph and colleagues modelled how increasing aridity, under even a relatively moderate climate change scenario, will affect Australian inland rivers within 50 years...

Interactive map displaying the Mean Annual Rainfall for the last 9 decades comprised between 1927 and 2016, as well as the Mean Annual Rainfall for the whole period 1927-2016. Source of rough data : Chelsa_Climate model. Click "Read More" to display the map and the technical explanations.