08 02 2010
Climate body to stay either way
The author behind a new study linking 30-year drought in Western Australia with heavy snowfall in Antarctica says it is strong evidence man-made greenhouse gases have provoked dramatic climate change.
read more08 02 2010
WA drought is 'proof of climate change'
AAP The author behind a new study linking 30-year drought in Western Australia with heavy snowfall in Antarctica says it is strong evidence man-made greenhouse gases have provoked dramatic climate change.
read more02 02 2010
Time to take the plunge
Key points While architects and construction contractors have focused on green buildings in recent years, there is still a disconnect between sustainable development and the impacts of climate change Climate change has the potential for enormous impact on commercial property, from the availability and cost...
read more29 01 2010
Councils fear climate claims
The State Government issued draft coastal planning guidelines late last year but the state and federal governments have different estimates for sea level rise by 2100 the State says 0.
read more28 01 2010
German Research Vessel Polarstern In New Zealand For The First Time
On 26 January 2010 the research vessel Polarstern docked in Wellington, New Zealand for the first time. This marked the end of the two-month leg of an expedition with a marine geological focus that started in Punta Arenas, Chile.
read more27 01 2010
Carbon Emissions Increasing Acidity of Ocean, Threatening Marine Life
The following article was released by SeaWeb in its latest update (January 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 2). There is also an accompanying video which can be accessed at the link provided below to the SeaWeb website.
read more19 01 2010
UN to probe doomsday glacier forecast
ABC/AFP The United Nations\' panel of climate scientists says it will probe claims its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers was wrong, as an expert says he had warned of the mistake.
read more18 01 2010
Wong defends UN over climate mistake
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says a mistake made by a United Nations body on the predicted rate of glacial melting does not mean all its findings are wrong.
read more12 01 2010
Climate: Good news in Antarctica
Oslo - Sea water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming that could bring higher world ocean levels, first tests showed on Monday.
read more10 01 2010
Scientists fish for fresh clues in a deep planetary mystery
DURING the two-week voyage from Hobart to the Antarctic ice at Casey station, a team of biologists aboard the ship Aurora Australis were busy fishing for clues about the hidden worlds beneath them.
read more04 01 2010
Antarctic icesheet losing mass
A new study has found the east Antarctic icesheet, which sits behind Australia\'s Casey Station, has lost billions of tonnes of ice in the past three years.
read more30 12 2009
SGI Powers Supercomputer Based at Australias University of Tasmania
The SGI Altix ICE is a 64-node cluster that will perform climate modeling and other...
read more14 12 2009
Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia
Satellite image of iceberg B17B (top left), some 19 kilometres long, floating in the Ross Sea, near Antarctica. Photo courtesy of gsfc/NASA A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island was spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists called a once-in-a-century event.
read more11 12 2009
Seeing through deep ice
The flight tracks of the 2009 ICECAP season radiating out from Casey over the Aurora Subglacial Basin and the Totten Glacier and superimposed on computer modeling of ice sheet flow; from very low flows in blue to major glacial flows in yellow and red.
read more11 12 2009
In Brief
Funding extended for ACE CRC The Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) has received $20.1 million for a further five years of research.
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