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56 million dead, one frozen secret: Antarctica outed the deadliest secret in human history- A Greenland ice core reads back almost 12,000 years of mercury fallout; humans were leaving traces thousands of years before the first factories
- Scientists drilled only 200 meters into Antarctica and uncovered Earth's oldest ice with 6-million-year-old air trapped inside
- Scientists thought this ancient ice sheet was stable until buried fossils revealed a lost forest beneath AntarcticaScientists discovered fossils revealing Antarctica was once a swampy temperate rainforest. This ancient forest existed around 90 million ye...11 May, 2026, 05.34 PM IST
- ET Prime Special Series: Multibagger or IBC - Part 57: Forging firm that supplies Tata, M&M, JCB. Nobody talks about it enoughFor over four decades, one company has been making crankshafts quietly and precisely, supplying customers from Tata Motors to Liebherr to M...06 May, 2026, 10.44 PM IST
- What Can Antarctic Ice Tell Us About Climate History?Antarctic ice cores offer a direct window into Earth's past atmosphere, revealing greenhouse gas levels from millennia ago. These frozen ti...16 Apr, 2026, 03.36 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
- Antarctica’s Frozen Secret: How Ice Solved the 1809 Climate MysteryAntarctica's ice holds secrets of Earth's past. Scientists have found evidence of a massive volcanic eruption around 1808 to 1809. This eve...28 Feb, 2026, 09.54 PM IST
- Ancient Ecosystem Discovered Under Antarctic Ice After 34 Million Years Sparks Global Debate Over Drilling RisksScientists may have found a 34-million-year-old ecosystem sealed under Antarctica's ice, dating back to a warmer era. Evidence suggests mic...18 Feb, 2026, 07.24 PM IST
- China's new Antarctica expedition to conduct drilling experimentsChina on Saturday launched its 42nd Antarctic expedition to conduct deep drilling experiments aimed at studying the continent’s evolution a...01 Nov, 2025, 11.53 AM IST
- Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from AntarcticScientists have successfully drilled an ice core in Antarctica nearly 1.2 million years old, reaching 2.8 kilometers deep. Analysis of this...09 Jan, 2025, 06.33 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
- Antarctic ice sheet a 'sleeping giant': ExpertResearch showed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue increasing as predicted, the giant East Antarctic ice sheet will m...13 Mar, 2016, 03.08 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
- Washington DC sinking fast, adding to threat of sea-level rise: StudyThe falling land will exacerbate the flooding that Washington, DC, faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice ...29 Jul, 2015, 05.46 PM IST
- NASA maps layers deep inside Greenland ice sheetScientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA have created the first-ever comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Green...25 Jan, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
- Underwater drone maps ice algae in AntarcticaThe drone follows a pre-programmed course and it maps the distribution of ice algae over very large areas where studies have not previously...06 Jan, 2015, 03.57 PM IST
- Scientists unlock Earth's 2,000-year-old climate historyAn international contingent of polar scientists has successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica to unlock the...08 May, 2014, 08.32 PM IST
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