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Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

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Louise Devenish receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This article includes contributions from the Dark Oceanography team: Louise Devenish (Monash University), Kate Milligan ...