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Carried by: CSRwire TRAVERSE CITY, MI (March 10, 2009) — Not since the American Dust Bowl of the early 20th century has an industrialized nation sustained more damage from drought and water scarcity in its prime food-growing region than in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. This, according to an extensive multimedia report published today by Circle of […]
A love song, a hymn of mourning: where has Australia’s beloved water gone?
Australia’s Epic Drought is Global Warning Circle of Blue Reports The grievous consequences of drought and global warming are more visible and dangerous in Australia than in any other industrialized nation. Wildfires last month killed 210 people in Victoria. The country’s greatest wetland, the Coorong near Adelaide, is drying up. And as it does, the […]
Will the sky ever listen again? A lone rice paddy stands flooded with water pumped from the ground near Deniliquin, New South Wales. In the face of water shortages, Australia’s rice industry has crashed, leaving farmers to convert from rice to other drought-resistant crops. by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue […]
Fish Come Back Dead Red Gum trees, Lake Pamamaroo near Menindee. by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports MENINDEE, New South Wales – Aunt Beryl Carmichael, a storyteller and elder of the Ngiyaampaa (nee-yump-pah) people, was born more than 70 years ago on an Aboriginal mission across the Darling River […]
Agricultural journalist Julian Cribb forecasts a perilous destiny for the world’s river basins and food baskets, a destiny he attributes to climate change and unchecked agricultural demand for water.
From any eye and all angles, the Murray-Darling River Basin conjures a grand but vexing vista. It stretches over a thousand miles across southern Australia. Its tributaries, wetlands and billabongs determine the landscape of those who live there — thousands of lives that in turn shape its fate too. J. Carl Ganter, an award-winning photojournalist, […]
At First Aghast, Victoria Grower Leads Campaign in Support of Water-Saving Construction The sun-dried expanse between Shepparton and Deniliquin, New South Wales, is dotted with irrigated hay, wheat and other crops by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports Northern Victoria is so flat that it takes a few days for […]
Can a Century of Canal Digging, Channel Constructing, Man Made Plumbing Be Undone Once a farmer now a conservationist, Greg Ogle stands among Australia’s giant Red Gum trees northwest of Swan Hill that the epic drought has killed (click image to enlarge). by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports Greg […]
Parched to a crisp, Australia’s prayers for rain seem to have fallen on sadistic ears. Instead of a quenching downpour, the southern curve of the continent now fights raging flames. The fires flying across Victoria and New South Wales have claimed over 100 lives, reports the BBC. It is the deadliest blaze in Australia’s history. […]
