CSIRO work demonstrates devastating effects of drought

RESEARCHERS at the CSIRO have reconstructed the nation’s ‘once in a century drought’ which occurred in the early 1900s.

CSIRO research has shown the dramatic impacts drought can have on biodiversity. Picture Mark Saunders.

17 July 2019
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The CSIRO work revealed the Federation Drought, as it is commonly known, caused mass ecosystem collapse and dramatic declines in plant and animal populations across more than a third of the continent.

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