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| UpdatedAn Australian team of international scientists is hoping to discover whether meltwater is speeding up the disintegration of the Antarctic's glaciers.
Topics: climate-change, science-and-technology, environmental-impact, earth-sciences, research, antarctica
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| UpdatedExploration could be about to take off with the Australian Antarctic Division investigating a new year-round runway site on the icy continent.
Topics: science-and-technology, earth-sciences, research, engineering, environment, antarctica, australia
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| UpdatedPalaeontologists are working in the searing outback sun to document fossils – believed to be more than half a billion years old – in the Flinders Ranges, as part of efforts to get the region onto the World Heritage list.
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| UpdatedSinkholes appear in peculiar places, and almost every time they do we stare in disbelief, wondering "how on Earth did that happen"? Well, here's why.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, emergency-incidents, earth-sciences, australia
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| UpdatedA green and red Tasmanian slug is the latest animal to be named after naturalist David Attenborough, who was honoured today as a lifetime patron of the Australian Museum.
Topics: science-and-technology, environment, human-interest, animals, biology, animal-science, earth-sciences, offbeat, tas, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedHeatwaves are becoming hotter, lasting longer and occurring more often, the Climate Council's latest report card on climate change says.
Topics: climate-change, environment, weather, research, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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Cicada numbers are steady in Tasmania but they could boom in a couple of years thanks to a wet winter last year.
Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, animal-science, earth-sciences, human-interest, launceston-7250
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Australian-based scientists are punching holes in Antarctica's sea floor to measure the impact of climate change on one of the world's most important oxygen producers.
Topics: climate-change, earth-sciences, marine-biology, biology, research, research-organisations, antarctica
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| UpdatedSure, Australia is gradually heading north — but we're also turning sideways, bobbing up and down, and entire cities are moving further apart. And we know all this thanks to black holes.
Topics: science-and-technology, earth-sciences, geography, australia
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| UpdatedPilot and scientist Andrew McGrath checks the health of the environment through aerial surveys.
Topics: environmental-management, earth-sciences, agricultural-crops, agricultural-chemicals, mining-rural, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000, sydney-2000, white-cliffs-2836, tibooburra-2880, wilcannia-2836
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World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic, US government agencies say.
Topics: climate-change, environment, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedMost people will not notice world time gaining another second as 2017 clicks over, but those harvesting at the time need to be alert.
Topics: internet-technology, agricultural-machinery, science, earth-sciences, australia
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| UpdatedSouthern Chile is rattled by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake, forcing thousands of people to evacuate coastal areas.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, earth-sciences, chile, argentina
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CSIRO scientists are conducting extensive research on the soil properties of northern Australia with the long-term view to establish new crops in the region.
Topics: education, earth-sciences, agricultural-policy, agricultural-crops, australia
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| UpdatedA team of Australian scientists heads to Antarctica to search for the source of a warm water flow that is rapidly melting one of the world's largest glaciers, sparking concerns about sea levels.
Topics: climate-change, marine-biology, research-organisations, earth-sciences, science, antarctica, hobart-7000, australia
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| UpdatedWhile the 2016 human census will go down in infamy, happily it can be said the elephant seal census on Macquarie Island was a roaring success.
Topics: animals, science, earth-sciences, macquarie-island-7151
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| UpdatedAustralian Antarctic scientists are in the race to find the "holy grail of climate science", a piece of ice so old that it might be able to reveal the climate of the past and help predict the future.
Topics: science-and-technology, earth-sciences, environment, climate-change, antarctica
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A meteorite recovered in Western Australia could lead to further discoveries about Earth.
Topics: astronomy-space, geology, earth-sciences, science-and-technology, university-and-further-education, morawa-6623, curtin-university-of-technology-6102
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Topics: biology, animal-science, earth-sciences, hervey-bay-4655
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| UpdatedScientists from across the country carry out the biggest biological stocktake ever completed on Fraser Island.
Topics: animal-science, earth-sciences, biology, biological-diversity, hervey-bay-4655
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An earthquake with an epicentre near Mount Everest wakes up people in Nepal, which is still recovering from last year's devastating tremors.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, earth-sciences, nepal
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Western Australia's Herbarium is the state's permanent plant library and is constantly adding new species to its records.
Topics: botany, flower-foliage, earth-sciences, biological-diversity, human-interest, perth-6000
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The largest all-female expedition to Antarctica prepares to make its way to the earth's southernmost continent.
Topics: women, environment, science-and-technology, earth-sciences, antarctica, australia
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| UpdatedThe discovery of tiny fossils in outback Western Australia may help scientists understand soils on Mars, according to a leading palaeontologist.
Topics: earth-sciences, planets-and-asteroids, science-and-technology, geology, port-hedland-6721, tas