Tag Archives: Australian Antarctic Division

The quest for a million-year ice record

The world’s ice sheets are our best record of what the climate was like thousands of years ago. Now an international team has begun the search for a million-year ice core from the continent’s deepest ice. Continue reading

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The changing sea around us

The ocean around us, the source of life, is the basis for our future well-being. We will do well to heed what’s happening there. Continue reading

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