Easy come easy go. Big lake in the middle of this place does that from time to time. Just needs a big rain in the right place. The 🐦 #birdlife is spectacular they seem to be in the know and come from everywhere. #lakeeyre

Severe flooding – in central Australia? How a vast humid air mass could soak the desert Last year, intense rains saw Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre close to full. As Central Australia braces for floods, the salt lake could fill again.

theconversation.com/severe-flood... #australia #Australiafloods #climatechaos #AliceSprings #climateemergency #theconversation #LakeEyre #centralaustralia

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Why the sheer scale of Lake Eyre 'makes you feel insignificant' Lake Eyre being full is not just a once-in-a-lifetime moment it's also a chance for outback towns to feast on tourism.

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre could be filling at a scale not witnessed in living memory. Fed by waters travelling from QLD's Channel Country, this vast inland basin is teeming with life. A living system that must be respected and protected. 💚 #lakeeyre #australia #nature

At Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, an 'inland tsunami' is making a sea Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of floodwater now flowing into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is raising more than rive...

Everything you need to know about #KatiThanda aka #LakeEyre, in #SouthAustralia

Australia's biggest inland mass of water, on extremely rare occasions.

1974 was the last time it was full, covering an area of over 9000 sq kilometres.

It is a very unique part of Australia.

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In today's video we take a look at the spectacular filling of Lake Eyre over the last month. It's taken months for water to move down from Queensland forming a surge of floods that even changed the weather in central #Australia. #LakeEyre #YouStormOutlook
youtu.be/afzAJ0Rxekw

Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’ Sacred site of the Arabana people could get its most significant top-up in a generation as floods spread across the outback

Down under inundation #KatiThanda #LakeEyre #Australia #climatechange www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A large glass jar with a white label and filled with yellowish ethanol containing 1,000 preserved isopods

Close-up of the ethanol-preserved isopods, which are grey-pinkish in colour and curled up

1/2 Ever wondered what 1,000 slaters in a jar looks like?
These tiny isopods were once abundant near Marree, south of Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre in South Australia.
#southaustralianmuseum #conservation #katithanda #lakeeyre

Water entering the vast dry Lake Eyre region from the Warburton River has been just visible from Himawari-9 over the last few days after an extremely long journey from extreme rainfall in Queensland ages ago. #LakeEyre

Water is entering Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre from the Warburton River seen by Aqua MODIS over the last few days. This is just the start of what should be a major filling #LakeEyre

Huge amounts of water continues to edge towards Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. We take a look at the progression of the floods using satellite imagery in this video #LakeEyre #YouStormOutlook youtu.be/SD-EWcrQzu0

#landsat morning view of #LakeEyre dust

Dust blowing off the dry northern bed of Lake Eyre, Australia in strong NNW winds today seen by #Himawari9 🛰️and flowing into numerous thunderstorms. In the morning Landsat also got a view of the dust beginning to get picked up in comment below. #LakeEyre

'Lock the Gate,which commissioned the independent analysis, said that aside from the social and environmental reasons to protect the #LakeEyre basin’s fragile flood plains, the report showed it was not commercially...

'The basin – home to one of the world’s last major free-flowing desert river systems – sprawls over nearly one sixth of the Australian continent..'
#LakeEyre
#Fracking

Destructive greed and enviromental vandalism

'The expansion of fracking in the #LakeEyre basin would be the “absolute height of folly” & its ​​high cost, high emissions unconventional gas could rapidly create stranded assets, a report has...

#Sentinel2 also captured the flood pulse travelling down the Diamantina and Hamilton Rivers on its way towards #LakeEyre:

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