'Come on, whatever': US Commerce Secretary's bizarre response on tariffs against islands populated by penguinsUS Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has defended President Donald Trump's move to impose tariff against uninhabited islands populated by p...
07 Apr, 2025, 05.27 PM IST
China expands presence in Antarctica with its first atmospheric monitoring stationChina has opened its first overseas atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica. The station will help study concentration changes in the ...
02 Dec, 2024, 08.00 PM IST
Climate Change: Global ocean temperatures’ record rise this week raises concerns. Here’s detailsWeather experts and oceanographers have expressed concerns over soaring ocean temperatures and warned that it may cause coral bleaching.
05 Aug, 2023, 01.52 AM IST
Antarctic sea-ice cover hits record low for 2nd year in a row, hitting it sooner than last year: Study18 Feb, 2023, 05.51 PM IST
2019 ozone hole is the smallest on record: NASAThe annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 16.4 million square kilometers on September 8, and then shrank to less than 10 million squ...
22 Oct, 2019, 03.16 PM IST
July 2019 hottest month on record: NOAAJuly 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded globally. The previous hottest month on record was July 2016. Nine of the 10 hottest Julys ha...
16 Aug, 2019, 06.02 PM IST
July 2019 hottest month on record: NOAA"Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat in July, as temperatures soared to new heights in the hottest month ever recorded," NOA...
16 Aug, 2019, 05.34 PM IST
- Ozone hole smallest since 1988: Scientists
Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) A hole in the Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September due to warm air was the smallest this ...
03 Nov, 2017, 01.52 PM IST
Climate change threatening penguins in Antarctica: StudyContinued warming of Antarctica due to climate change may lead to decline of 60 per cent of Adelie penguin colonies by the end of this cent...
01 Jul, 2016, 10.58 PM IST
China to use Arctic route for shipping to cut down distanceChinese ships will navigate the Arctic via a Northwest Passage route that will be 30 per cent shorter than the ocean passages, official med...
20 Apr, 2016, 10.27 AM IST
Antarctic ozone hole expands to record levels: NASAThe 2015 Antarctic ozone hole area was larger and formed later than in recent years, scientists from NASA and NOAA have said.
30 Oct, 2015, 04.39 PM IST
Job-for-bribe scam in Antarctic study centre; CBI launches probeCBI has named Pandey as an accused in an FIR along with several other senior officials and scientists of the organisation.
24 Oct, 2015, 10.14 AM IST
Global average temperature for January was second hottest on record post 1880During January, the globally-averaged sea surface temperature was 0.53 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. This was the third h...
20 Feb, 2015, 05.09 PM IST
US scientists record 2014 as the hottest yearThe year 2014 was the hottest on record, with global average temperature increasing about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880- US government sci...
18 Jan, 2015, 02.32 PM IST
China and Australia ink deal to firm up Antarctica explorationXi said China would like to continue to cooperate with Australia and other nations to further know, protect and explore Antarctica.
19 Nov, 2014, 04.10 PM IST
China opens fourth Antarctic research baseChina has opened its fourth research base in Antarctica with a host of facilities including a runway for a fixed wing aircraft to land.
08 Feb, 2014, 02.53 PM IST
- Face up to climate change
The uncertainties about climate change are many and great. As more becomes known about climate change - for example, the role of clouds and...
30 Jan, 2008, 10.19 AM IST