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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...
Home of 80-foot killer waves: All about Drake Passage, the dangerous ocean stretch that even advanced ships don’t dare to passA strong earthquake hit the Drake Passage. It prompted tsunami alerts for Chilean Antarctic bases. The Drake Passage is known for rough sea...
Major earthquake between South America and Antarctica: What and where is the Drake Passage hit by a 7.5 magnitude tremblorA significant magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on August 21, 2025, triggering tsunami alerts for Chile's coast. The passag...
South African scientists, trapped in Antarctica base, beg for help post assault and death threats from colleagueOne of the researchers at the Sanae IV research centre in Queen Maud Land's Vesleskarvet claimed in an email that they were surviving in fe...
Giant iceberg weighing 1 trillion tonnes and twice the size of Greater London has broken away; will it cause any harm? Here's what it could doLatest reports have revealed that a huge iceberg which is probably the biggest and the largest iceberg of the world right now have eventual...
Subglacial meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers could accelerate retreat, study findsResearchers have found that subglacial discharge, or meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers, could be causing glacier...
Deep ocean targeted for mining is rich in unknown lifeMiners are eyeing an abyssal plain stretching between Hawaii and Mexico, known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), for the rock-like "nod...
Ancient shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded Earth's climate historyTens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on ...
- New Zealand buoy to study 'liquid Himalayas'
Wellington, Feb 9 (IANS) The New Zealand navy has launched a research buoy in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean to help a study on how ships...
Customised weather forecast of tourist destinations soon: Harsh VardhanIMD would also start providing weather forecast at 6,000 block levels, expanding from 660 districts as of now, to make forecast more accura...
The odds of foretelling rains: Why monsoon prediction is hard, and why it could soon improveAll current methods fail in predicting extreme events that cause droughts and floods, and predicting them is one of the real objectives of ...
Himalayas were born 47 million years ago: StudyThe team of Australian and US scientists believe the collision occurred 47 million years ago when India and Eurasia initially smashed into ...
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.
Antarctic ice shelves rapidly thinning: StudyThe thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves has decreased by 18 per cent in certain areas over nearly two decades, warns a study.
- Germany clears Indo-German Antarctic expedition
The German government on Monday gave the go-ahead to an Indo-German ocean-seeding experiment that experts say could lead to a way of fighti...
Mission to dump iron off Antarctica suspendedIn a major setback to the Indo-German Antarctic expedition, LOHAFEX, the German science ministry has bowed to pressure from environmental N...
- Antarctic mission runs into protest
An Indo-German expedition, currently sailing to Antarctica to test a technique that may help fight climate change has run into protests fro...
- Tossing iron powder into ocean to fight global warming
Indian scientists, along with their foreign counterparts are embarking on an expedition to find whether tossing iron powder into the ocean ...