• 3 min read

    20 Jan 2026

    How surface level observations in Antarctica will deepen our understanding of the world’s future coastlines

    While many Australians will spend their summers on the beach sweating beneath a blazing sun, a team of scientists will be in East Antarctica examining how ice melts and refreezes,…
  • 4 min read

    10 Jul 2024

    How a visual history of Antarctica enabled researcher to chronicle the impact of climate change

    More than 300,000 US Navy images vital to helping Ryan North examine collapsing ice shelves and glacial melt
  • 4 min read

    3 Jun 2024

    How does the Southern Annular Mode control surface melt in East Antarctica?

    New research shows that the Southern Annular Mode’s influence on surface melt varies across East Antarctica due to its effects on the local weather conditions, including air temperature, snowfall, wind…
  • 4 min read

    11 Aug 2022

    World’s largest ice sheet is more at risk than we thought.

    New research published today in Nature shows that the worst effects of global warming on the world’s largest ice sheet – the East Antarctic Ice Sheet – can be avoided…
  • 4 min read

    13 Jul 2022

    We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future

    Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will…