China and Russia have been blocking international plans to protect marine life in East Antarctica. Will next week’s special meeting in Chile break the deadlock? Australia hopes so.
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Strategic tensions with Russia and China are hardening globally and Antarctica won’t be immune from them. Can Antarctica stay peripheral, as it has in previous moments of geopolitical heat?
Scott Morrison on Tuesday will announce $804.4 million over a decade to strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in the Antarctic.
It would be the first concrete runway in Antarctica and have the biggest footprint of any project in the continent’s history.
Scientific research into the effects of climate change in Antarctica - and its history of intrepid exploration - is inspiring contemporary Australian composers.
Buried beneath kilometres-thick slabs of ice are rivers and huge lakes - some of which are teeming with microbes that thrive in a world without light or oxygen.
Polar ice isn’t all the same - it can be divided roughly into “land ice” and “sea ice”. What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea.
Australia and China both have a keen interest in the frozen continent. And while they don’t agree on everything, there is great scope for scientific collaboration.
It’s one of the remotest places on Earth and yet is still claimed by six nations – including Australia.
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Assistant Professor of Glaciology, University of Waterloo
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Physical Oceanographer, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, Singapore Management University
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Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
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Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division
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Antarctic Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Conservatorium of Music, School of Creative Arts and Media; Adjunct Senior Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Glaciologist, Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Environmental History, University of Tasmania