Greens want more Antarctic research

The Greens want to almost double the amount of time an Antarctic research vessel is out at sea and hire 30 scientists to study ice-sheet collapse.

Increasing the amount of days the CSIRO's RV Investigator can sail from 180 to 300 will cost $194.5 million over the next 10 years, while adding 30 scientists to the Australian Antarctic Division will cost $44 million over the same period.

"The work of Australia's Antarctic scientists is pivotal in understand the risk of climate change," Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said on Sunday.