Australia’s inland rivers are the pulse of the outback. By 2070, they’ll be unrecognisable
- Written by Zacchary Larkin, Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University
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Inland Australia’s complex system of winding rivers, extensive wetlands, ancient waterholes and seemingly endless parched floodplains are rarely given more than a passing thought by many Australians who live on the coastal fringes.
Yet these waterways are lifelines along which communities, agriculture and trade have flourished.
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