A three-year study carried out by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO has found that Victoria’s 13 year drought is actually a permanent climate shift linked to increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Strengthening high pressure systems are pushing rain bands further south, over the ocean rather than land, due to the [...]

Credit where credit’s due. At the dawn of 2009, John Brumby, and his Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Gavin Jennings, announced the formation of four new national parks in Victoria. These national parks aim to protect sections of Victoria’s stressed River Red Gum ecosystems, and two of the parks will be jointly managed [...]