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Australia has a long-term trend of declining rainfall
2016 Key Finding... in the past 100 years, particularly the past 40 years. The millennium drought (2000–10) was followed by the wettest 2-year period on record (2010 ...
Introduction 2016
2016 , At a glance... we can experience heatwaves, floods, fires, cyclones and drought. Australia’s highly variable climate is influenced year to year by ... Australia ( Clarke et al. 2013 , CSIRO & BoM 2014 ). The millennium drought, which saw much of southern Australia experience dry ...
Land: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... has seen an ongoing relaxation of the effects of the millennium drought and recovery in many areas (the millennium drought in southern ...
State and trends of Australia’s climate 2016
2016 , At a glance... the past 100 years, particularly in the past 40 years. The millennium drought began in 2000, and ended in 2010 with Australia’s 2-year period on ...
Effectiveness of inland water management 2016
2016 At a glance... is well recognised internationally. As an example, severe drought conditions in California, United States, during the past 4 years have ... Australia’s water resources activities following the millennium drought for potential adoption. During the past decade, the National ...
Introduction 2016
2016 At a glance... conditions experienced after the sustained impacts of the millennium drought (which occurred from 2000 to 2010—although in some areas it began as ...
Climate: 2011–16 in context
2016 , Report Content... year (2013). Since the 2011 La Niña that helped break the millennium drought, drought has re-emerged across large parts of Australia, especially ...
State and trends of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glance... in dryland salinity appear to have been slowed by the millennium drought, although a return to wetter conditions is likely to increase spread of ...
Pressures affecting inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... and use of water. The few wetter years that followed the millennium drought eased the pressure on total water available to the environment in some ...
Recent national assessments of management performance
2016 Report Content... benefits to governments, communities and industries. The millennium drought tested the reform principles enshrined in the National Water Initiative ...
Executive Summary - Inland water
2016 Executive Summary... Aquatic environments responded to these pressures and post–millennium drought conditions, as well as to the benefits and detriments arising from the ...
Soil: Formation and erosion
2016 Report Content... shows the Australian continent in 2006, during the millennium drought . Figure LAN22b shows the same seasonal period in 2015, after the ...
Soil: Salinity and acidification
2016 Report Content... to 17 million hectares by 2050. However, the millennium drought appears to have halted the spread of dryland salinity in most of the ...
Climate change–induced pressures
2016 Report Content... biological impacts, together with the effects of flood, drought and other weather patterns, will progressively change Australian ... role, given that the onset of the dieback coincided with the millennium drought . The Monaro region has a harsh climate, with extremes of ...
State and trends of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... were around or above 80 per cent of capacity. After the millennium drought, this wetting of the country was welcome, with positive responses for ...
Inland water: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... the spotlight during the past 5 years. On the back of the millennium drought, where reliance on groundwater increased in many areas of Australia, ...
Changing land use and management
2016 Report Content... and rangelands during the La Niña years following the millennium drought (see the Land report for details). This produced a spike in central ...
Built environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content... Since 2010–11 (generally considered to be the end of the millennium drought in southern Australia, which lasted from 2000 to 2010, although in some ...
Overview of state and trends of the land
2016 Report Content... Reef
What has changed since 2011?
The effects of the millennium drought in southern Australian (2000–10, although in some areas it began as ...
Management focus areas
2016 Report Content... 2015 ). Australia’s urban water networks emerged from the millennium drought with improved water infrastructure, following major investments in ... water cycle and for overall urban planning. Following the millennium drought investments, the urban water sector faces a sustained ...
Climate change will affect Australian regions differently
2016 Key Finding2016 Climate change will result in location-specific vulnerabilities. Australia is predicted to experience increased heatwaves, leading to increased bushfire incidence and health problems (heat stress); longer droughts, extending further geographically; flooding from more intense storm...
Freshwater species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content... 2013 in the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth. Since the millennium drought (which lasted from 2000 to 2010, although in some areas it began as ...
Introduction
2016 At a glance... scientific, technological, cultural and religious ( Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 ). This report presents information on the ... living. In the latter, there is significant room for hope. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). Ecosystems and human well-being: a ...
Population and climate change are the biggest pressures on air quality
2016 Key Finding... emissions to the atmosphere; and reduced rainfall and drought could promote dust events. ...
Box BIO6 Koalas—a matter of national environmental significance
2016 Case Study... and predation by dogs, as well as indirect threats from drought and climate change . Our most at-risk koala populations—in ... and predation by dogs, as well as indirect threats from drought and climate change . Our most at-risk koala populations—in ...
Overview of effectiveness of management of land
2016 Report Content... 2015b ) included a focus on ‘strengthening our approach to drought and risk management’, which made commitments to improving drought forecasting and managing pest animals and weeds in drought-affected ...
Water resource development
2016 Report Content... a change from a downwards or steady trend at the end of the millennium drought to an increasing trend in the 4 years to 2013–14 ( Figure WAT7 ). ...
Water quality
2016 Report Content... Whitworth KL, Baldwin DS & Kerr JL (2012). Drought, floods and water quality: drivers of a severe hypoxic blackwater event ... of rivers in the Murray–Darling Basin at the end of the millennium drought (2008–2010). Summary, MDBA, Canberra. MDBA (Murray–Darling Basin ...
Increased consumption
2016 Report Content... built environment has remained stable since the end of the millennium drought (a 1 per cent decrease since 2010–11), and consumption has not ...
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