That extreme lifeforms might exist in the cold and dark lakes hidden kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet has fascinated scientists for decades. Understanding how life can exist in the most extreme…
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Antarctic ice shelves are losing ice by melting from their undersides, as well as by calving icebergs. A study compiled by…
Researchers are now able to determine the amounts of gel produced from sea ice microbes, based on the physical nature of…
Although it is far from the power stations, roads and flight paths of the populated world, the Southern Ocean is already responding to climate change. Average sea temperatures in some parts have risen…
A hundred years after Australian explorer and geologist Douglas Mawson returned from his epic scientific adventures in Antarctica, Australia’s scientific exploration of the icy southern continent has all…
New research has shown that the Southern Ocean near Antarctica is filled with whale bone-eating worms, but it lacks wood-eating marine fauna, which are found everywhere else in the world’s oceans. This…
The Antarctic warming that signalled the beginning of the last ice age melt may have actually started between between two and four millennia earlier than previously thought, a new study has found. Previously…
The acidity of Antarctic seawater has risen dramatically, new research shows. The study, published in The Journal of Marine…
Researchers from the University of New South Wales and the Australian Antarctic Division have found that slight changes in…
Russia blocked the approval of new marine protected areas in the Antarctic this week, demanding more scientific information and a definition of marine protected areas. The surprise move postpones a joint…
Penguins can move underwater with the speed of a swallow or swift, but cannot fly even as far as a chicken. How did a bird that in some cases shuffles 40 miles to its breeding grounds on unsuitable flippers…
The melting of glaciers accounts for one third of observed sea level rise, according to new research published in Science…
Two papers released last week in the journal Nature Geoscience provide evidence that warming and melt in West Antarctica are occurring at levels that are highly unusual compared to natural variability…
The cause of dramatic losses in glaciers and ice sheets in the West Antarctic is still unclear. A recent research team has…
Ice melting in Antarctica during summer has increased almost ten-fold in the past 600 years, with the most severe increases…
When it comes to climate change, temperature is only part of the story. Climate gases released by human activity are dissolving into the oceans, and the increased levels of CO₂ are making the waters more…
With the global population now well over seven billion there are few remaining parts of the world relatively untouched by human activity. We assess the current state and future prospects of five final…
Sea ice is expanding in the seas around Antarctica. Unlike in the Arctic, where sea ice has suffered a drastic decline in…
A new study clarifies the link between carbon dioxide and temperature increases. Ice core samples from the last glacial period…
The biodiversity of Arctic and Antarctic regions is being affected in different ways by global warming, new research shows…
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Astrophysics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
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Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), UNSW Sydney
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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Professor in Ocean Physics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Antarctic Law Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
