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Mystery behind rising sea levels unlocked

Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8mm per year from 1961-2003, according to data from tide g...

China installs largest optical telescope in Antarctica

A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical tele...

Space pictures pick up lots more penguins

Scientists counting emperor penguins from space have found twice as many of the birds in Antarctica ...

Emperor penguins count double from Space!

Scientists counting emperor penguins from space have found twice as many of the birds in Antarctica ...

Satellite records Antarctica ice shelf`s retreat

The European Space Agency`s Envisat satellite continues to record the rapid retreat of one of Antarc...

Antarctic ice shelf may be disintegrating rapidly

ESA’s Envisat satellite, which marks ten years in orbit, is continuing to observe the rapid retreat ...

India`s 3rd research base in Antarctica begins on trial basis

India has done a soft launch of its third research station in Antarctica`s Larsemann Hills region.

Scientists pin down historic sea level rise

The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to ri...

$West Antarctic ice shelves may be `fracturing and retreating inland`$

West Antarctic ice shelves may be `fracturing and retreating inland`

Floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are gradually losing their hold on adj...

Future sea-level rise predicted in 3-mn-yr-old rocks

The height of ancient sea level indicates Greenland and the western part of Antarctica had no ice sh...

Algae bloom can be seen from space

The bloom, which is about 200 km wide and 100 km long, has been described by scientists as a "remark...

Antarctic-like salty, water sucking soil could exist on Mars too

The frigid dry valleys in Antarctica may be a polar desert, yet their sandy soils actually suck mois...

Fire at Brazil`s Antarctic base kills 2, injures 1

The blaze broke out in the machine room that houses the energy generators of the Comandante Ferraz s...

Putin hails Antarctic lake discovery

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has praised Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater ...

Earth losing roughly 150 bn tons of ice annually

Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie ...

Experts may reach bottom of Lake Vostok in 2014

Russian scientists are planning to use robotic probes to reach water layers at the bottom of an anci...

Strong quake rattles remote Antarctica

A strong and shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the remote South Shetland Islands region in A...

Remains of giant dinosaur discovered on Antarctica

Palaeontologists claim to have found the remains of a titanosaur, the family of giant plant-eating d...

Antarctica mapped `sans ice`

The map, BEDMAP2, gives the close-up view of Antarctica without its ice.

Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation

A drop in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels seems to have triggered Antarctic ice sheet formation.

East Antarctica `experiencing climate change`

East Antarctica is experiencing a significant climate change, say scientists who claim to have found...

India to commission 3rd research station in Antarctica

After the station named `Bharti` becomes operational, India will join the league of select nations t...

NASA sees giant crack forming in Antarctic glacier

NASA scientists are watching a giant crack forming over a vulnerable Antarctic glacier and they thin...

Ozone not healing

Scientists worldwide are looking for evidence that the ozone layer is beginning to heal, but this ye...

Storm delays rescue of ill woman from Antarctica

Renee-Nicole Douceur had hoped to fly on Monday to the city of Christchurch in New Zealand.

Scientists seek life beneath Antarctic ice

They believe a lake, that has been buried by ice for up to a million years, contains unique microbes...

Antarctica rising by 5 millimetres a year!

The loss of ice due to climate change in Antarctica is causing the once buoyant continent to be heav...

Strong currents accelerate Antarctic ice melt

The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four km a year.

Rare celestial spectacle awaits skygazers

"The celestial encounter is going to be so close that earth`s gravity will sharply alter the asterio...

Ozone hole over Antarctica on the road to recovery

Researchers have derived evidence of ozone rebound, 22yrs after CFCs ban came into force.

Ozone hole linked to southern rain increases

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is a significant driver of climate change.

Cannibal virus `discovered` in Antarctica

Scientists claim to have discovered a cannibal virus that "eats its own" and encourage faster grow...

Gear from 1930s US mission to Antarctica found

Researchers in Antarctica have discovered a stash of equipment left behind by a US expedition in the...

NASA tests Mars space suit in Argentine Antarctica

The $100,000 prototype suit, created with NASA funds, is made out of more than 350 materials.

Japanese whalers, activists clash off Antarctica

Japanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists after being tracked down in Antarctica...

South Korea boat sinks in Antarctic sea; 22 feared dead

The deep-sea trawler with 42 crew members on board sank off Antarctica.

No survivors from French helicopter crash in Antarctica

Australian rescuers confirmed there were no survivors from a helicopter crash, involving four Frenc...

Bodies spotted in Antarctica helicopter crash

A helicopter crashed into the ice of Antarctica leaving 4 Frenchmen missing.

Clues about CO2 patterns during Ice Age

A new study has put to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial perio...

Puzzling pattern of cosmic rays in Antarctica

An observatory still under construction in Antarctica has detected a puzzling pattern in the cosmic ...

Pine Island Glacier behind thinning ice in Antarctica

Scientists have identified Pine Island Glacier as a major source for thinning ice in West Antarctica...

Single Antarctica glacier causing sea to rise by 10%

Melting of Pine Island Glacier is contributing nearly 10% of sea level rise.

Antarctica`s glacier `contributing 10 pc of sea level rise`

Scientists have found that thinning ice in Antarctica is contributing nearly 10 per cent of sea leve...

‘Antarctica may have been formed by asteroid strike’

A massive asteroid that hit the Timor Sea around 35 mn yrs ago may have created Antarctic.

Scientists uncover deep ocean current near Antarctica

Scientists have discovered a fast-moving deep ocean current with the volume of 40 Amazon Rivers near...

Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica`s coast

A massive iceberg struck Antarctica, dislodging another giant block of ice from a glacier, Australia...

2 huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica`s coast

An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another m...

Ice shelves attached to Antarctica are disappearing

Floating ice shelves attached to Antarctica are disappearing due to global warming, says a new study...

Antarctica`s "ghost mountains" finally come into view

A team of scientists has announced that the so-called ``ghost peaks`` in the middle of Antarctica, w...

Why Antarctica isn’t melting as much as expected

Two glaciologists have determined that Antarctica isn’t melting as much as expected because it under...

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