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Recent Mawson Posts
- Walruses Abandon Ice And Move En Masse To Coast of Alaska
- New study slashes estimate of icecap loss
- China has Antarctica in its sights
- NASA’s Successful Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Mission Comes to an End
- Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral Beatles concert will span the continents
- Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
- Disaster at the Top of the World
- 100-year-old Scotch pulled from frozen crate
- NASA Project Traces Antarctica From Space
- Alien species could damage Antarctic ecosystems
- Current Moonphase in Antarctica
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Antarctica’s ice loss helps offset global warming: study
AFP and published via The Sydney Morning Herald Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas … Continue reading
Frigid Antarctica Loaded with Viruses
By Rachael Rettner at Live Science At first glance, Antarctica’s freshwater lakes don’t seem very hospitable to life. They remain frozen for a good nine months out of the year, and they contain very few nutrients. Some of these lakes … Continue reading
Culture on Ice
Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow, Stephen Eastaugh, spent a year at Mawson turning a ‘raw bag of culture’ – art supplies – into art. Here he reflects on the things that contribute to Antarctic culture. The word ‘culture’ is derived from … Continue reading
Don’t forget the sandwiches…
Steve’s had enough of eating penguin pie and seal flipper biscuits, but on a recent picnic took these handsome pics for us all. Thanks Steve. Finding the spot is the difficult bit… but this will do I’d say. Or maybe … Continue reading
Sea Ice Study Yields New Insights
From Voxy News in New Zealand… Satellites can see the surface of the sea ice, but they can’t tell us anything about the thickness or volume of the sea ice. Nor can they help us understand the complex relationship between … Continue reading