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Trump cuts satellite data on Antarctic sea ice just as it’s needed most
Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low sea ice in the Antarctic summer, but they will lose access to their main data set at the end of this month.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Animation of Antarctic sea ice coverage 1978-2023
This animation shows Antarctic sea ice coverage pulsing between winter and summer over the 45 years since satellite records began in 1978. Credit: Owen Kaluza, Australian Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-NRI)
How sea ice affects the global ocean climate
This map is a Spilhaus projection, showing the world's seas and oceans as a single body of water, centred on Antarctica and bordered by continents. Source: Australian Antarctic Program Partnership.
2022 Northern Rivers floods were six hours from catastrophe
Modelling the 2017 and 2022 floods that inundated Lismore will help determine mitigation projects.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW braces for gale-force winds, torrential rains from coastal low
The low-pressure system is expected to rapidly intensify before barrelling towards Sydney, with the worst of weather expected on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- by Kayla Olaya
A thorny issue: How sea urchins could offer a perverse climate hope
The marine creatures are marching down Australia’s east coast and colonising Port Phillip Bay. But some people are determined to see hope in the crisis.
- by Bianca Hall
Attenborough’s new doco is bringing audiences to tears. One voice has gone completely silent in its wake
What may turn out to be David Attenborough’s last film might turn out to be his greatest legacy.
- by Nick O'Malley
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