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Antartica News

09 Jun 2021

Southern Ocean - National Geographic officially recognises 'new' ocean

The National Geography in a report said that while other oceans are identified by the region they surround, the Southern Ocean is defined by its current.

12 Apr 2021

'Melting Thwaites' raises global concern along with sea level

Thwaites Glacier is 120 km wide and its melting constitutes approximately 4% of the total global sea-level rise every year. Researchers at the Sweden’s University of Gothenburg are now saying that fears related to Thwaites’s melting are worse than previously thought.

12 Feb 2020

Melting of Antarctic ice sheet shows the importance of Paris climate agreement

Hiatus suggests a substantial loss of ice mass during the LIG that coincides with a well-documented peak in ocean temperatures, suggesting that ocean warming drove ice sheet loss.

Chilean Air Force

10 Dec 2019

Chile military plane with 38 onboard disappears en-route to Antartica

A state of alert was declared after communication with plane was lost, and a search and rescue team was activated.

24 May 2019

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth discovered in Chile

Scientists say they have uncovered the oldest meteorite collection on Earth's surface in Chile's Atacama Desert, allowing them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years.

15 Jan 2019

Antartica melting away at alarming rate, scientists worried

A new study has revealed that melting of the ice and snow from the entire continent of Antarctica has accelerated by 280 per cent in the last four decades.

30 Oct 2018

Annoyed scientist stabs colleague who kept revealing endings of books

The scientist and his colleague would pass long lonely hours in a remote outpost in Antarctica by reading.

09 May 2017

India preparing law on Antarctica

India is preparing a law for safeguarding its interest in Antarctica, an official of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) said here on Tuesday.

13 Dec 2016

Australia risks losing its share of Antarctica

Australia is in danger of losing its position as an Antarctic leader, as well as its claim over the frozen continent, unless it maintains funding for its scientific research program, experts said.

23 Jun 2016

Sick workers evacuated in daring South Pole rescue

The plane`s crew and a medical team had made the 10-hour journey to the South Pole from the British Antarctic Survey`s Rothera research station.

03 Mar 2016

Australian icebreaker heading home after Antarctica grounding

Australia's flagship icebreaker was today steaming back home with its crew after running aground in Antarctica during a blizzard, with experts saying damage to the hull was minor.

27 Feb 2016

Ship that ran aground off Antarctica freed, researchers safe

An icebreaker carrying researchers that ran aground off the coast of Antarctica was freed by crew today and was afloat again, the Australian government said.

28 Jan 2016

Aparna Kumar - India's first civil servant to conquer Antarctica’s highest peak

27 Nov 2015

Runaway loss of Antartica ice may last for centuries

The runaway loss of ice from Antarctica as a result of global climate change could last for centuries, said a study on Friday.

17 Sep 2015

World Ozone Day: 30 years of healing the ozone together!

This massive “hole” in the ozone layer triggered panic leading to the signing of the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol.

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