The high cliffs of Thwaites Glacier taken from the British Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft (Rob…
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After losing about 140.5 billion tons of ice a year for two decades, Antarctica temporarily reversed course, gaining a record 695 billion tons in 2021-23 as tropical warmth drove heavy snowfall
Representative Image (AI-generated) Antarctica has been losing mass for years as glaciers shed ice into the…
Scientists finally solve the mystery behind Antarctica’s Blood Falls: 2.5 million year old life beneath the glacier surprises researchers |
Blood Falls. Image Credit: National Science Foundation/Peter Rejcek Blood Falls is a unique natural phenomenon located…
‘Varanasi’: SS Rajamouli reveals Mahesh Babu and Priyanka Chopra’s globe-trotting epic spans from Antarctica to ancient Rome |
‘Varanasi’ is still months away from its release, but director SS Rajamouli has been doing his…
He once stood at a Kolkata metro station ready to end his life, today he is the 1st Indian to run at the North Pole: How Ram Gopal Kothari turned his life around
There are moments in life when you are so defeated by the events that you believe…
Antarctica averages minus 55°C at Vostok Station, yet a Lake Ontario-sized body of water remains liquid beneath four kilometres of ice for fifteen million years |
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth, featuring a deadly combination of extreme temperatures, high elevation…
A 17-year-old student proposed a hybrid nuclear energy system that could reduce an Antarctic base’s carbon emissions by 3,254 tons annually
Image Credit: Cooperativa Ciencia A 17-year-old Chilean high school student, María Javiera Valenzuela, is drawing attention…
Antarctica: In 2025-26, more than 120,000 tourists visited Antarctica; some former guides now say the industry crossed a line
A ship sails through the Lemaire Channel in Antarctica (AP file photo) A new study has…
Antarctic: Scientists find nanoplastics in Antarctic soil for the first time, including tyre-wear particles, raising concerns that tiny plastic pollution can travel through the atmosphere to Earth’s most remote places
Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport Scientists have detected nanoplastics…
Scientists discover giant fan-shaped structure beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet: The hidden structure rewriting Earth’s ancient history
For decades, Antarctica has been treated as a kind of frozen time capsule, a place where…