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A tiny lake beside Canada’s oldest ice mass creates a surreal scene from spaceA striking satellite image reveals Gee Lake on Baffin Island, a remnant of the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet. This ice cap, dating back 20,0...08 May, 2026, 05.37 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
- Your 24-Hour Day Is Quietly Changing, Here’s WhyEarth's rotation is slowing, making days longer. The Moon's gravity is the primary driver of this change. Winds, ocean currents, melting ic...26 Feb, 2026, 11.33 AM IST
- The Arctic Wasn’t Always Frozen: Fossils Reveal a Lost World of Forests, Rhinos and Nesting DinosaursFossil evidence reveals that the Arctic was once a warm, forested region supporting large mammals such as hornless rhinoceroses and dinosau...18 Feb, 2026, 12.36 PM IST
- Nothing is insignificantMicrobes are vital for survival. Like a forest, humans are mobile ecosystems. Trillions of microbes populate our bodies. These microbes wor...01 Sep, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
- Antarctica's ‘doomsday glacier’ nearing collapse, scientists warn it's happening sooner than expectedScientists have discovered that Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting rapidly and may be on an irreversible path to collapse, potentiall...24 Sep, 2024, 12.38 PM IST
- Melting Himalayas are waking up 1,700 ancient viruses sleeping for 41,000 yearsResearchers have uncovered nearly 1,700 ancient virus species in the glacial ice of the Himalayas, with about three-quarters previously unk...04 Sep, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
- Scientists find climate change disrupting time more than previously thought16 Jul, 2024, 06.59 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
- Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt13 Sep, 2021, 04.22 PM IST
- Indian Himalayan region: Another catastrophe in the making?In high mountainous terrains, melting of glaciers due to global warming leading to higher warming rates over higher elevation than lower el...10 Feb, 2021, 12.21 AM IST
- China includes CPEC in scientific expedition to TibetIn the coming months, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will take more than 100 scientists to the lake area and the origin of the Yangt...18 Jun, 2017, 01.14 PM IST
- Warming is altering Greenland ice sheetClimate change over the last few years has altered the structure of the Greenland ice sheet, causing it to lose its ability to limit mass l...06 Jan, 2016, 03.56 AM IST
- Climate change altering Greenland ice sheetFirn is multi-year compacted snow that is not as dense as glacier ice. Instead, it forms a porous near-surface layer over the ice sheet.05 Jan, 2016, 01.33 PM IST
- WII initiates study on Climate Change in Bhagirathi regionThe National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) is one of the eight National missions which form the core of India’s fi...27 Nov, 2015, 06.04 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
- What has stopped Antarctica from warmingThe secret to why Antarctica is not warming as much as the other continents, and why Australia faces more droughts lies in strengthening of...13 May, 2014, 01.40 PM IST
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