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New funding for science in lead-up to whales meeting
Australian Centre for Marine Mammal Science receives a $1 million boost
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On guard against an alien invasion
Protecting Antarctica from non-native species
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Ice core features at Australia's 2020 summit
An ice core from Antarctica illustrates how data on past human activity can help to inform future events.
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Cool Science

Requirements for the coldest place on Earth
It barely snows, the wind hardly blows, it’s over 4 km high with 3 of those being ice. Could Dome A really be the coldest place on Earth?
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Australia leads the way in Antarctic climate science
A new report highlights the significant contribution made by Australian Antarctic scientists to understanding climate change.
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This Week in Antarctica

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A first summer at Mawson
Supervising Telecommunications Technical Officer Jodi Wruck has just spent her first summer at Mawson...
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Bill's blog: visiting Wilkes after 47 years
A lifelong passion for Antarctica inspired Bill Burch to revisit the site of the abandoned Wilkes station where he worked as geophysicist in 1961....
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