Hidden Antarctic Canyons: The Secret Threat to Coastal Cities You Haven't Heard OfScientists have discovered hundreds of hidden underwater canyons off Antarctica. These vast valleys, carved by sediment flows, are now unde...
05 Mar, 2026, 09.44 AM 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
Antarctica’s record heat wave: A threat to global sea levels and ice integrityResearchers are concerned about a record heat wave in Antarctica because it may affect the continent's ice sheet and raise sea levels world...
06 Aug, 2024, 01.51 AM IST
Andhra Pradesh has geological links with South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica: ScientistsNGRI scientists from Hyderabad reveal a historic collision between India and East Antarctica over a billion years ago. Their findings, incl...
16 Jul, 2024, 12.04 PM IST
Antarctica's ice shelves reduced by over 40 per cent in volume over 25 years: StudyA study published in the journal Science Advances reveals that 71 out of 162 ice shelves surrounding Antarctica have decreased in volume fr...
13 Oct, 2023, 05.17 PM IST
Antarctic 'landfast' ice likely to reduce by end of century, important to include it in climate models, say scientistsAlong with documenting a recent dramatic crash in its extent, the first-ever broad review of Antarctic landfast ice highlighted its far-rea...
24 Jun, 2023, 06.19 PM IST
Antarctica ice melting increased by 280% in last 16 years, study saysThe researchers were able to discern that between 1979 and 1990, Antarctica shed an average of 40 gigatonnes of ice mass annually. From 200...
15 Jan, 2019, 12.58 PM IST
- Melting East Antarctic ice sheet may cause global sea level rise
New York, Dec 18 (IANS) The East Antarctic ice sheet -- one of the two large ice sheets in Antarctica and the largest on the entire planet ...
18 Dec, 2017, 06.07 PM IST
East Antarctic Ice Sheet stayed frozen for 14 million yearsAfter estimating an initial level of initial concentration of beryllium-10 in their lake samples, the researchers were able to estimate the...
16 Dec, 2015, 01.51 PM IST
Runaway loss of Antarctic ice may last for centuries: StudySatellite observations show that parts of the Antarctic ice sheet are currently thinning in response to a warming ocean.
27 Nov, 2015, 04.24 PM IST
Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?The penguin population in East Antarctica is 135 times larger now than it was when the last ice age ended around 19,000 years ago.
18 Nov, 2015, 03.18 PM IST
- Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?
Adelie penguins may be benefiting from shrinking glaciers, according to a new study that found the population of the species in East Antarc...
18 Nov, 2015, 01.55 PM IST
Himalayan glaciers to ice in Antarctica!A report by NASA scientists suggests that the Antarctic ice sheet may actually be expanding, growing every year, despite a warming globe!
08 Nov, 2015, 10.39 AM IST
- Ocean warming melting one of largest Antarctica glaciers
One of the largest glaciers on the planet, Totten, is melting due to ocean warming, a phenomenon that demonstrates the vulnerability of Eas...
27 Jan, 2015, 03.30 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
East Antarctica is sliding sidewaysWest Antarctica is losing billions of tonnes of ice per year and its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle benea...
12 Dec, 2013, 03.39 PM IST
- 'Snout' of Dakshin Gangotri glacier receding
The 'snout' of the Dakshin Gangotri glacier is receding at an average rate of .70 metres per annum, according to a study conducted by India...
24 Apr, 2008, 07.02 PM IST