Tag: antarctica
Antarctica Ice Shelf Grounding Line Shifts with Changing Tides
In a significant revelation, researchers have found that the grounding line of the southern Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica can move up to 15 km (six miles) with changing tides.
Tourism; Effective Management Needed For Antarctica
With tourism in Antarctica on a rise, researchers and conservation organizations argue for stronger measures to safeguard the environment of Antarctica from...
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...