Microphones on the seafloor recorded life under the Antarctic ice for two years – inadvertently catching seal trills and chirps that are above the range of human hearing. Could they be for navigation?
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Carbon emissions are chilling the atmosphere 90km above Antarctica, at the edge of space
It would be the first concrete runway in Antarctica and have the biggest footprint of any project in the continent's history.
As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That's always puzzled scientists, but now they think they know what happened.
Two centuries after it was first sighted by Russian explorers, Antarctica is a key site for studying the future of Earth's climate – and for global scientific cooperation.
Sending autonomous vehicles to the Southern Ocean can be fraught with anxiety, especially if one of them doesn't make radio contact when it's supposed to.
A paleooceanographer describes her ninth sea expedition, this time retrieving cylindrical 'cores' of the sediment and rock that's as much as two miles down at the ocean floor.
Antarctic sea ice cover fell to an all-time low recently and hasn't yet recovered. Why? The initial answers could lie in an unlikely place – the tropics.
There are some limits on what countries can do in the Antarctic, but not when it comes to science.
Sidney Jeffryes achieved a world first by establishing wireless contact between Antarctica and Australia. But his mental illness meant he gradually vanished from history - until now.
Scientific research into the effects of climate change in Antarctica - and its history of intrepid exploration - is inspiring contemporary Australian composers.
Preliminary results of a study have shown microplastics have reached in a newly revealed Antarctic environment.
Last summer one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves calved an iceberg the size of Delaware – but scientists say other less dramatic changes reveal more about how and why Antarctica is changing.
Australia must keep up its scientific presence in Antarctica and work with others if it's to maintain its territorial claim on the frozen continent.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change, Director of the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, Director of Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, and UNSW Director of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW
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Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
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Associate Professor Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of English and ARC Future Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Conservation Biologist, The University of Queensland
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Research scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Glaciology and Palaeoclimatology, Head of School Geography, Geology and the Environment and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Conservatorium of Music; Associate Head - Research, School of Creative Arts; Adjunct Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of West Florida
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Exeter
