Himalayan glaciers melting twice as fast, threatening billions: ReportHimalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Ice loss has nearly doubled since 2000. This region holds vital ice reserves for Asia. ...
21 Mar, 2026, 10.06 AM IST
What Did Antarctica Hide for 190 Million Years? Jurassic Dinosaurs ExplainedAntarctica was once a lush continent, not an icy wasteland. Fossils of Glacialisaurus hammeri, a giant herbivore, show this. Around 190 mil...
05 Mar, 2026, 06.56 PM IST
A Rainforest Once Covered West Antarctica: Sediment Cores Reveal How It VanishedAstonishingly, dense temperate rainforests once flourished near the South Pole 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence from seabed cores reve...
01 Mar, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
Surging tourism is polluting Antarctica, scientists warnScientists warn that increasing tourism and research activities are significantly polluting Antarctica, exacerbating the threats already po...
21 Aug, 2025, 11.31 AM IST
Is Antarctica's icy exterior hiding a lush, prehistoric paradise? Scientists uncover shocking evidence!Scientists have uncovered an ancient landscape beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing a past environment with rivers and forests that existed ...
05 Jun, 2025, 11.04 PM IST
Scientists discover Archaeopteryx fossil that sheds light on the first flightA remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil, the most complete ever found, is revealing secrets of early flight. Discovered in Germany and now at Chi...
15 May, 2025, 01.58 PM IST
Antarctica hides massive secrets under its vast ice shelves, scientists are just finding out the detailsScientists have made remarkable discoveries beneath Antarctica's million-year-old ice, revealing ancient landscapes, subglacial lakes teemi...
12 May, 2025, 04.00 PM IST
Scientists discover river system that flowed 40 million years under ice in AntarcticaGeologists have discovered an old river that formerly flowed through Antarctica but is now buried below kilometers of ice.
22 Jun, 2024, 07.52 PM IST
New extremes in Antarctic virtually certain, says study09 Aug, 2023, 04.12 AM IST
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 ...
13 Jul, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
- Fossils of pre-historic human-sized penguins found
Sydney, Dec 13 (IANS) A giant species of penguins, which had the size of an adult human, inhabited New Zealand between 55 and 60 million ye...
13 Dec, 2017, 04.32 PM IST
- New species of long-necked dinosaur discovered in Australia
Sydney, Oct 21 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a new species of long-necked dinosaurs in northeastern Australia that could have arrived ...
21 Oct, 2016, 11.37 AM 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
13 Indians take the harshest route in the world to save AntarcticaThe expedition, which started on March 16, will see the group travel from Drake Passage near Cape Horn, the southern-most point to America.
16 Mar, 2015, 05.09 PM IST
Antarctica was once as warm as Florida, CaliforniaParts of Antarctica, one of the coldest places on Earth, were as warm as today's California coast about 40 million years ago with temperatu...
22 Apr, 2014, 02.57 PM IST
- Antarctica went through heat wave 15.7 million yrs ago: Study
Scientists have revealed that Antarctica went through a heat wave nearly 15.7 million years ago during which plants and algae were abundant...
05 Oct, 2009, 09.50 AM IST
- Man-made climate change seen in Antarctica, Arctic
Both Antarctica and the Arctic are getting less icy because of global warming, scientists said in a study that extends evidence of man-made...
31 Oct, 2008, 10.10 PM IST