Simply Put: Antarctica ice sheet

Abiding beauty

Antarctica is one of the few places on earth that have never seen war, where the environment is protected and where the priority is scientific …

Mega iceberg released 158 billion tonnes of water into ocean

Over Christmas 2020, the mega iceberg hit the headlines around the world after coming worryingly close to South Georgia, raising concerns it …

Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels

What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea

Antarctica’s sea ice is at its lowest extent ever recorded

High temperatures and warm air from north may be responsible: Experts

Antarctic odessey

An old, cold ecosystem

Growing commercial interest in Southern Ocean’s resources thwarts protection efforts around Antarctica  

Russia no longer engages in krill fisheries but wants to keep its options open. It might have larger plans

Researchers’ horror act

Film>> Scientists • Antarctic

Antarctica blues

Indian scientists discover how living in the frigid continent affects the mind and the body

Mammoth mollusc

INDIA

Berg break

Icy quakes

Venture into danger

Frozen facts

Fat answers

Frozen details

Indian scientists gear up for a new round of experiments in Antarctica

Is life elsewhere?

Ultimate survivors

"Extremotolerant" bacteria make a living in the deepfreeze lakes in Antarctica

Parmjit Singh Sehra

Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole

Plastic Pollution: Birds on every continent except Antarctica live amid human rubbish

While the blanket term of ‘plastic’ is used to refer to such pollution, many different materials litter the environment, like disposable masks

Polar Ebb & Stockholm+50: We need urgent agreement to protect Antarctica, the Arctic

Countries should draft an Arctic Treaty System in line with its Antarctic counterpart

60 days in Iceberg Alley, drilling for marine sediment to decipher Earth’s climate 3 million years ago

Sediment layers are like a library of the Antarctic’s past environment

Breaking the ice on Antarctica