Tag: antarctica
3,000 Billlion Tonnes Ice Lost in Antractica
More than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice have been lost in the Antarctic Region over a 25-year period, which shows the disaster ahead in the coming years, according to a new study.
Synthetic Fibres Add to the Worry of Antarctica
The discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea has once again...
AIM: Understanding the Glaciers and the Melting Mountains
With ice sheet loss in Greenland and parts of Antarctica gathering pace and largely irreversible, eighteen countries led by two polar and...
No Going Back in Antarctic Glaciers; Scientists
Antarctica is crumbling at its edges. Antarctic glaciers flow more rapidly to the ocean, accelerating the rate of global sea level rise,...
Warming Antarctic waters, a threat to Ecosystem
Warming waters, decreased sea ice and reduced abundance of Antarctic silverfish, a correlation that has now been discovered by a group of researchers of...
Antarctic Ice To Melt Faster If Paris Agreement Not Committed
The world will witness an enormous sea level rise if global warming does cater to the 2015 Paris climate agreement target, according to a...
Ozone hole reaches maximum in 2020
The ozone hole over the Antarctic has widened and has reached its maximum size in 2020, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
The ozone hole...
Ice sheet melt in Greenland, Antarctica to add 15 inches of...
The world has seen several reports on global warming, ice melting and sea water rising and adding to these is a study from NASA...
More penguin colonies found in Antarctica
A group of researchers have found nearly 20 per cent more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than earlier thought. They came across the colonies...
Green snow mapped in Antarctica
The snow in Antarctica is turning green. But this is not to be considered a good sign of the environment. The green colouration of...
