A global review of research around the impacts of dams has found they are significantly harmful to diadromous species—fish, ...

and plans to strengthen Scotts Peak Dam afterwards. But a campaign to drain Lake Pedder will continue. In 2016, Hydro Tasmania completed a set of flood maps for towns on the Huon River.

Some of Tasmania's heaviest-ever rain has forced the evacuation of residents across the state, with rivers and dams bursting their banks. The state has been lashed with the same storm front that ...

Most of Tasmania has already received more than the average rainfall for May only halfway through the month, with large falls near the crucial Hydro dam catchments. For the first time this year ...

Stopping up rivers ... the dams were a problem,” he said, “but we didn’t know how much of a problem.”Credit...Tahneal Hawke Platypuses only live naturally in eastern Australia and Tasmania ...