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24 Jun 2021

The world now has a fifth ocean - the Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean encircles Antarctica It will now have the same status as the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, as well as the same typeface. According to the National Geographic, it is the only ocean that "touches three other oceans and entirely embraces a continent rather than being enveloped by them."

global warming and climate change

23 Sep 2020

Global warming in Arctic Sea threatens, glaciers are rapidly melting

Global warming in Arctic Sea threatens, glaciers are rapidly melting. Watch this special report!

28 Jul 2020

Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic

Russian scientists are poring over the stunningly well-preserved bones of an adult woolly mammoth that roamed the earth at least 10,000 years ago. Local inhabitants discovered its remains in the shallows of a north Siberian lake. Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia`s remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle.

26 Jan 2018

China releases Arctic Policy: Trade, natural resources and food are key areas of focus

The Arctic Policy outlined the rationale that China is likely use to ensure access to the resources of the region.

13 Dec 2017

'New normal': Temperatures in Arctic rising twice as fast as rest of the planet

The region around the north pole "shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region it was decades ago," the report said.

23 Nov 2017

200 polar bears feed on carcass of whale that washed ashore on Russian island

A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before the jaw-dropping realisation that some 200 polar bears were roaming on the mountain slope.

25 Sep 2017

Scientists express concern after discovery of plastic chunks in Arctic ice

The finding has prompted fears that as the ice melts, because of climate change, plastic that has long been trapped in it is flowing into the Arctic.

20 Sep 2017

2017's Arctic ice extent eighth lowest since 1978, says NASA

At 4.64 million square kilometres, it is the lowest on record since 1978 and has reached the mark on September 13, say the US space agency.

18 Apr 2017

Climate change impacting the faculties of citizens, global leaders?

23 Mar 2017

Arctic, Antarctica sea ice sinks to record low this year

This winter, a combination of warmer-than-average temperatures, winds unfavourable to ice expansion, and a series of storms halted sea ice growth in the Arctic, the scientists said.

14 Mar 2017

Arctic sea ice loss due to natural variations: Study

Many scientists suspect that the trend now underway is a combination of global warming and natural climate variability.

Operation IceBridge

13 Mar 2017

Operation IceBridge – NASA's aerial survey of polar ice expands its Arctic reach for first time

For the first time, NASA says the mission in its ninth year is expanding its reach to explore the Arctic’s Eurasian Basin through two research flights based out of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

24 Feb 2017

Arctic is already witnessing spring – thanks to climate change!

The study covers 12 years of observations at a West Greenland field site near Russell Glacier, a dynamic front protruding from the massive inland ice sheet that covers most of the island.

06 Feb 2017

ISRO's SCATSAT-1 data reveals sea ice cover in 2016 is lowest ever recorded

The Ku-band Scatterometer on-board SCATSAT-1 is ISRO’s second space borne scatterometer similar to OSCAT on-board Oceansat-2.

08 Jan 2017

Whale migration delay due to Arctic sea ice loss, says study

In contrast, a different beluga population, also in Alaska, that migrates and feeds in the same areas does not appear to have changed its migration timing with changes in sea ice, researchers said.

24 Dec 2016

Arctic heatwave could break records this Christmas

Temperatures at the North Pole could be up to 20 degrees higher than average this Christmas Eve, in what scientists say is a record-breaking heatwave, a media report said on Saturday.

20 Dec 2016

Barack Obama bans drilling in Arctic, Atlantic oceans

US President Barack Obama has banned future oil and gas drilling in most of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, the latest move to cement his environmental legacy before he leaves office next month.

Science and Environment News 2016

20 Dec 2016

Effects of climate change and global warming on the Earth and its ecosystems

With 2015 ending in the nations of the world putting up a united front against climate change in Paris, the entire course of 2016 was all about making the world aware of its devastating effects, while also initiating their respective strategies to reduce carbon footprints.

24 Nov 2016

Antarctic has barely changed in size in last 100 years, claim scientists

According to estimates by climate scientists at the University of Reading in London, Antarctic has lost only 14 per cent summer sea ice since the early 1900s.

19 Nov 2016

Sea ice in Arctic and Antarctic at record low, says report

While record low sea ice is nothing new in the Arctic, this was a surprising turn of events for the Antarctic, the report said.

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