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The man behind the black armbands

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Peter Boyer

Tom Maggs was remembered by Australia’s cricket elite on Boxing Day, though cricket was not his scene. He was a champion of another kind. Last week I went to the funeral of a man who died on Christmas Eve after … Continue reading →

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Keeping a weather eye on Antarctica

Posted on 27 January 2009 by Peter Boyer

Working out what’s happening with Antarctic ice is a tough assignment, but an international aerial survey of the ice sheet aims to produce new data on current and past ice conditions. Continue reading →

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The quest for a million-year ice record

Posted on 30 December 2008 by Peter Boyer

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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