How is a changing climate changing the water cycle? by A/Prof Jan Zika, ACEAS Chief Investigator We need to understand how climate change is affecting the long-term patterns of rainfall and evaporation on Earth. Our new study, led by Dr Taimoor Sohail, an Associate Investigator with ACEAS, outlines a way to track the water cycle by […]

Unravelling the moving mysteries of Antarctica Scientists are exploring a new method to uncover details of the changes occurring in the mysterious landscapes of East Antarctica—changes that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the planet. Researchers from the newly-formed ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), based at […]

Study exposes role of sea ice in protecting Antarctic coast A new method for detecting and monitoring change in the exposure of the Antarctic coastline to the dynamic Southern Ocean, due to changing sea-ice distribution, could improve environmental monitoring and modelling of Antarctic ice loss and sea level rise. For the first time, Dr Phil […]

Tiny satellites are changing the way we explore our planet and beyond NASA Shane Keating, UNSW Sydney and Clare Kenyon, The University of Melbourne Want to go to space? It could cost you. This month, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will make the first fully-private, crewed flight to the International Space Station. The going price for […]

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: insights from the 2022 IPCC WGII report The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) and the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) have released a report on IPCC WGII key findings for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Over time, greenhouse gas emissions have caused observable changes in Antarctica and the Southern […]

The collapse of the Conger Ice Shelf Satellite data from 17 March 2022 shows the Conger ice shelf collapsed in Antartica. Credit: USNIC This month, the entire Conger Ice Shelf—an area of 1200 sq kms, which is as large as New York City, or Rome—collapsed in East Antarctica after a heat wave. But what impact […]

A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down. If it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia By Matthew England, UNSW Sydney; Andréa S. Taschetto, UNSW Sydney, and Bryam Orihuela-Pinto, UNSW Sydney Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North […]

What lies beneath Antarctica could destabilise icesheet A new study suggests rising global temperatures could trigger vulnerabilities in the bedrock beneath the Earth’s largest ice sheet in Antarctica and cause rapid sea level rise. The sedimentary basins that lie beneath Antarctica are fundamental to ice sheet flow, but until now were poorly understood. Co-author of […]