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To fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus on organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
Seafloor landforms reveal that ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres per day.
Erratic weather patterns occurring due to climate change may become a more significant factor affecting the season start and ice-building processes in the future.
The length of a day has critical impacts on our technologies, navigation, and more.
This seemingly one-off heatwave may be a harbinger for the future under climate change.
A massive Antarctic ice shelf is showing signs of cracking and could trigger worldwide flooding.
A particularly stormy winter has pushed perennial sea ice into the Arctic melt zone.
Australia must treble its emissions reduction targets and reach net-zero emissions by 2035. Without this and other radical global action, the chance to hold warming to well below 2°C will pass us by.
Cultures worldwide are awash with tales of great floods. What can they tell us about the reality of a wetter world?
Our research shows the Antarctic could be closer to a tipping point than previously thought.
Some 58 metres of sea level rise is locked up in Antartica’s ice sheets, and it’s melting faster than expected.
Sea levels could rise by two metres by 2100, sparking a refugee crisis unlike anything the world has ever seen.
A new report predicts that one-third of the ice in the Himalayas will melt, even if we contain global warming to 1.5C. So what does that mean for the flood-prone valleys below?
The climate secrets contained in an ancient tree that lived through abrupt global change reveal how Antarctica can trigger rapid warming in the north by dumping cold water into the Southern Ocean.
Climate change is set to expand Antarctica’s ice-free area, potentially helping native species to flourish but also paving the way for invasive species to gain a foothold.
The link between melting sea ice and extreme weather has been known for a while, but now it’s happening further afield.
New mapping shows how Antarctica’s huge Totten Glacier has retreated far inland, raising sea levels by more than a metre. Rising temperatures could trigger it to do so again.
Since 1993, satellites have been used as well as tidal gauges to monitor sea level. A new calibration of this satellite record now shows that the rise in sea level is gathering pace.
For several years now climatologists have puzzled over an apparent conundrum: why is Antarctic sea ice continuing to expand, albeit at the relatively slow rate of about one to two percent per decade, while…
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow, Geography, Swansea University
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Reader in Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University
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Research Fellow, Exeter Climate Systems Group, University of Exeter
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Honorary Research Fellow, Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Ikigai Research, University of Tasmania
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ARC Future Fellow, IMAS and ACE CRC, University of Tasmania
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Researcher, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
