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Climate change is turning SA’s coastal lagoons into ‘salty soup’

Birds flocking beneath the dunes of the Coorong, a coastal lagoon in South Australia. (Picture: Darcy Whittaker, CC-BY)

The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life they […]

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