The water that vanishes into thin air and the global rewrite of the rules that could finally count it
A new study finds evaporation from irrigation storages in the Murray–Darling Basin is nearly 40% of the water taken from its rivers.
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What’s in your water? Introducing the Australian Drinking Water Record
Critical data gaps remain in relation to drinking water quality in Australia. A new resource hopes to fill those gaps.
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Dbytes #719 (20 May 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. What’s in the 2026-27 federal budget for nature?
2. National Environmental Standards
3. Climate Theatre Is the New Denial
4. Reef snapshot
And more
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Dbytes #718 (13 May 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. 4 major problems with draft Environmental Standards
2. New wave of biodiversity assessment, offset planning
3. Beach law in the Anthropocene
4. Citing Indigenous Knowledges
And more
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Dbytes #722 (10 June 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. Understand the nature impact of the ASX200
2. Mangrove forests are healing
3. The UK Nature's Rights Bill
4. Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
And more
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Australia quietly released the national ecosystem account last week. Now we need to use them
Michael Vardon explains why these accounts are important and how we could be using them. He laments at how little attention they are given.
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A new study finds evaporation from irrigation storages in the Murray–Darling Basin is nearly 40% of the water taken from its rivers. At the same time, the world’s statisticians are deciding whether lo...
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Critical data gaps remain in relation to drinking water quality in Australia. A new resource created by the Water Justice Hub, the Australian Drinking Water Record (ADWR), hopes to fill those gaps. He...
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In this issue of Dbytes 1. What’s in the 2026-27 federal budget for nature? 2. National Environmental Standard for Matters of National Environmental Significance 3. Climate Theatre Is the New Denia…
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Four major problems with the draft National Environmental Standard tasked with protecting threatened species 2. A new wave of biodiversity assessment, offset planning and…
Nature in Australia stored almost $60 billion worth of carbon in 2021–22! How do we know? Because this value was recorded in the country’s second set of ecosystem accounts just put out by the ABS. And...
Dbytes #720 (28 May 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. Feral cats bounties don’t work
2. Responsibilized & powerless
3. Sealife triples in MPAs
4. The Great Acceleration Anomaly
And more
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Dbytes #723 (17 June 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. No to bringing back native forest logging
2. Bottom-Tow Fisheries Sustainability
3. Credentials Don’t Convince
4. Diverse discourses in landscape restoration
And more
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Dbytes #721 (3 June 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. Australia's land use future: an integrated approach
2. Democratic Systems with More-than-humans
3. Australia’s new environment laws a box‑ticking exercise
4. Critical refuges for a threatened mammal
And more
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Dbytes #717 (5 May 2026)
News in environmental decision making
1. Australia & the national ecosystem accounts
2. Nature’s role in national security
3. Report on North Basin Toolkit
4. AI tool protects native spp
And more
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In this issue of Dbytes 1. Feral cats bounties are being trialled in parts of Queensland – do they work? 2. Responsibilized and powerless? Unpacking the individualization of climate mitigatio…
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Should we bring back native forest logging? The answer is a clear no 2. Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening Bottom-Tow Fisheries Sustainability 3. Credentials …
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Australia’s land use future: a thriving economy and environment through an integrated approach 2. Reimagining Democratic Systems with More-than-humans 3. Australia’…
In this issue of Dbytes 1. Australia quietly released the national ecosystem account last week. Now we need to use them 2. Nature’s role in national security 3. Northern Basin Toolkit: inquiry repo…
