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penguins on macquarie island

Penguin paradise and geological freak: why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

10 Mar 2023

Macquarie Island is a globally unique home to dozens of bird and marine mammal species, hence the government’s plans to give it greater protection.

Artist's depiction of the Mars Rover on the surface of Mars

There could be alien life on Mars, but will our rovers be able to find it?

23 Feb 2023

New research published today in Nature Communications suggests the rovers’ current equipment might not actually be up to the task of finding evidence of life.

Dr Meganne Christian parabolic flight

Out of this world! How UNSW helped shape future astronaut Dr Meganne Christian

02 Dec 2022

The sky has proven to not be the limit for the UNSW Engineering alumna, who is poised to become the first Australian woman in space.

Paradise Bay, Antarctica

Southern Ocean takes on the heat of climate change

08 Sep 2022

New modelling shows the Southern Ocean to have absorbed the majority of excess greenhouse-related warming due its unique geographic properties.

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Small window of opportunity left to preserve Antarctica's 'sleeping giant'

11 Aug 2022

The future of the world’s largest ice sheet and rising sea levels depend on urgent action on global warming, study finds.

A chunk of the Antarctic ice sheet breaks off into the freezing water below

Antarctic ice sheet changed alarmingly quickly in the past – and it may be happening again now

19 Nov 2021

Patterns of rapid ice loss in the past could predict style of future Antarctic ice sheet retreat.

Researching air-eating microbes in Antarctica

27 Aug 2020

UNSW Sydney researchers have found their previous discovery of bacteria living on air in Antarctica is likely a process that occurs globally, further supporting the potential existenc

Robinson Ridge in the east Antarctic

Microbes living on air a global phenomenon

19 Aug 2020

UNSW researchers have found their previous discovery of bacteria living on air in Antarctica is likely a process that occurs globally, further supporting the potential existence of microbial life on alien planets.

Secrets of Antarctic lake’s microbes revealed

11 Aug 2020

UNSW Science Professor Rick Cavicchioli is an expert in microbes and why they are so important – just last year, he led an urgent call for the world to stop ignoring this ‘unseen majority’ in Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystem when addressing climate change. 

Whale ‘snot’ study shows poorer health in migration

05 Aug 2020

UNSW Sydney researchers collected and tested samples of humpback whale "snot" – similar to mucus from a human nose – and found severely depleted microbial diversity a

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