India preparing law on Antarctica, poised to expand research activities in coldest continent
India is also preparing a law for safeguarding its interest in Antarctica, an official of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) said on Tuesday.
May 09, 2017, 15:57 PM IST
New crack found in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves
Scientists fear the new branch that has appeared in a huge crack on one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves could be about to break.
May 03, 2017, 10:59 AM IST
Antarctica's 'Blood-falls': Scientists finally decode more than century-old mystery!
According to The Sun, scientists were able to track the path of the water under the glacier using echolocation technology.
Apr 28, 2017, 12:38 PM IST
Climate change impacting the faculties of citizens, global leaders?
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Apr 18, 2017, 12:47 PM IST
Antarctica was once covered by lush subtropical forests, say scientists
According to scientists, nearly 300 million years ago, the frozen, inhospitable Antarctica was once covered by lush subtropical forests.
Apr 15, 2017, 09:38 AM IST
Arctic, Antarctica sea ice sinks to record low this year
This winter, a combination of warmer-than-average temperatures, winds unfavourable to ice expansion, and a series of storms halted sea ice growth in the Arctic, the scientists said.
Mar 23, 2017, 17:43 PM IST
Antarctica warming up; clocks highest temperatures on record, says UN report
Getting a better grip on how global warming might impact the world's largest ice mass is of more than academic interest.
Mar 01, 2017, 21:11 PM IST
NASA's lost football-field-sized balloon recovered from Antarctica
The US space agency NASA's lost football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it has been recovered Antarctica from after a year of its flight.
Feb 25, 2017, 20:59 PM IST
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet looks out at warming signs over Antarctica’s Larsen ice shelf from ISS!
The massive Antarctic region serves as a measuring unit when it comes to climate change.
Feb 07, 2017, 23:29 PM IST
Fossil leaves show how Antarctic ice melted 23 million years ago
Some models had shown that at the current rate, the Antarctic ice-sheet might reach a critical tipping point and start destabilising very quickly which had happened before.
Oct 21, 2016, 00:06 AM IST
Billion-year-old secret revealed: India used to be a part of Antarctica!
A group of geologists from India and Switzerland researching on evolution of the Earth's crust studied ancient rocks of the continental crust in the Eastern Ghats area and found important clues to the formation of the continents.
Aug 04, 2016, 23:14 PM IST
Signs of `healing` ozone layer over Antarctic: Study
The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has begun to shrink, signaling good news for the environment several decades after an international accord to phase out certain pollutants, researchers said Thursday.
Jul 01, 2016, 01:29 AM IST
Climate change alert! Warm Antarctica spells bad news for penguin colonies
Adelie Penguin is one of the two natives of Antarctic penguins- the other being the emperor penguin- and it inhibits the full extent of the continent.
Jun 30, 2016, 10:06 AM IST
Opal-studded meteorite points towards evolution of water on Earth!
Earlier, there were claims of the source of Earth's water being found in meteorites and a new discovery has strengthened that belief.
Jun 29, 2016, 19:46 PM IST
Why is the Antarctic Ocean unaffected by global warming? Puzzle solved!
The solution lies in the unique ocean currents that envelope Antarctica.
Jun 01, 2016, 00:19 AM IST
Why are Antarctica ice-levels increasing? NASA has the answer!
The revelation led to many people wondering about the reason for the phenomenon and also sent scientists and researchers into a tizzy to find its cause.
May 22, 2016, 22:44 PM IST
See pic: This is how Antarctica looks from space!
British astronaut Tim Peake has always stunned us by sharing beautiful images of our planet taken from space.
Apr 02, 2016, 10:12 AM IST
Birds in remote Antarctica can recognise individual people
While it is only natural for birds living among people to learn to differentiate individual humans, researchers have found that skuas living in remote Antarctica too can recognise people who had previously accessed the nests to measure their eggs and nestlings.
Mar 26, 2016, 12:14 PM IST
Ice shelf twice the size of Manhattan set to break away from Antarctica?
An ice shelf which is roughly twice the size of Manhattan has been spotted by NASA scientists, forming across one of Antarctica's ice shelves.
Mar 16, 2016, 13:56 PM IST
Antarctica: Sea-level rise too big to be pumped away
Sea level rise is likely to be a problem too big to handle as a new study suggests that geoengineers will not be able to pump away the rising tides.
Mar 11, 2016, 10:55 AM IST
