Breaking the ice

The recent breaking away of a massive iceberg from the Antarctic peninsula has generated a heated debate on the bothers of global warming

Nature's laboratory

The ice cover almost 4.8 km thick is perhaps the most valuable feature of Antarctica, with its record of past atmospheres in the trapped air bubbles

Penguin paradise and geological freak: Why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

The island is a subantarctic environment crucial for seabirds marine mammals

Earth's last frontier

India is setting up an ambitious Antarctica study centre on the west coast

Going down south

Ministers on ice

Scorching reality

The world might never witness an ice age again, thanks to global warming

Continental melting

'Set up inland stations'

On the move: Antarctic iceberg the size of Greater London breaks away

Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf has broken off into an iceberg of 1,550 aquare kilometre size. However, the event was expected and not linked to …

Climate change in news on April 16

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around climate change

Spring brings sad tidings on ozone hole

Fresh data on dipping levels of atmospheric ozone add up to a grim scenario that can have serious implications for life on earth.

Hunting clubs on pleasure islands

A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters

Heading south - Extended excursions

For Indian researchers, a field trip to the South Pole may no longer be a directionless exercise. The country's scientific institutions that have …

Antarctic ozone hole now larger, thinner & may take longer to recover. Mesosphere has a role to play: Study

Meteorological conditions could have largely driven fluctuations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole

‘India supports marine protected areas in Antarctica to conserve ocean life’: Jitendra Singh to DTE 

New designated regions be counted in 30X30 goal  

Antarctic iceberg, once Earth’s biggest, suffers major split

The moving ice giant has been floating away from Antarctica since 2017

Ozone layer depletes

ARGENTINA

Unbearable!

Polar bears in Arctic are suffering due to industrial chemicals

More than 100,000 tourists will head to Antarctica this summer. Should we worry about damage to the ice and its ecosystems?

Visits are concentrated in highly sensitive ecological areas for only a few months per year

No evidence of microplastics in emperor penguins, says study

The future of emperor penguins remains uncertain despite positive findings about its ecology

Terror on the high seas

A giant iceberg, now floating off the coast of Antarctica, is threatening research and commercial ships plying in the busy Drake Passage

Barren continent

After the destruction of Europe's conifers, it took millions of years for the regeneration of forests

High road to Dubai COP28: Scientists join group in saying 1.5°C warming limit too high

20-nation group point to global impacts on world’s ice sheets, glaciers and cryosphere