Satellite observations have measured accelerating polar ice mass loss over the past decade as part of the Gravity Recovery and […]
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Climate answers buried in Antarctica
Many of the remaining great unknowns about climate change lie buried within Antarctica’s ice. At the Strategic Science in Antarctica […]
Continue readingBrrrr! Experts comment on polar blast
New Zealand is in the grip of a winter storm, with cold southerlies from Antarctica bringing snow, wind and hail. […]
Continue readingVeronika Meduna on science in Antarctica
Veronika Meduna (from Radio NZ’s Our Changing World) reflects on the New Zealand’s contribution to Antarctic science in a column […]
Continue readingAntarctica’s ‘near tropical’ past
A drilling expedition off the coast of Antarctica has revealed the continent once boasted a warm “near tropical” climate. In […]
Continue readingAntarctica under threat
Antarctic researchers are calling on policy makers to look ahead to future challenges and protect the polar continent from growing […]
Continue readingSeal mummies harbour microbial secrets in Antarctica
Researchers in Antarctica have co-opted some unlikely assistants in their examination of microbial communities in the southern continent. Mummified seals, […]
Continue readingUK call for memorial to top NZ scientist
A campaign has begun in Britain for a memorial there to the scientist who led New Zealand’s contribution to the […]
Continue readingRadio NZ’s Kathryn Ryan in Antartica
In early December 2011 Nine to Noon’s presenter Kathryn Ryan and producer, Caitlin Cherry were invited by Antarctica New Zealand […]
Continue reading‘Last Ocean’ concerns canvassed at conservation think tank
Some of the 250 international scientists gathered in Auckland for a world conference on conservation biology, have just spent three […]
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