Scientists have been following ozone depletion for decades. Over the years, about 70% decrease in the ozone column has been observed in the southern hemispheric spring over Antarctica and according to recent reports, it is still continuing. The...
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The ghast realities of global warming were splendidly picturized in the movie 'The Day After tomorrow'. But the sad thing is we 6 billion individuals on earth are on brink of finding ourselves in the conditions shown in the movie. Moreover, we are...
If exotic locations such as Alaska and Antarctica are on your future-planned destinations, it's time to plan your vacation now, as you may never get to see them in a few years from now. Yes, global warming is taking its toll on these locations and...
Vebjorn Sand, Norwegian painter and artist has created an ice bridge made out of frozen Antarctic water to create awareness among people on global warming. Placed just outside the U.N. headquarters, this effort by Sand gives us a clear message that we...
Humans are reluctant to forego their luxurious lifestyle, with zooming cars, lightening homes, buzzing everyday life, unaware of the future danger or I may say reluctant to pay heed to the looming threat. But, ever imagined, who is suffering at the...
Can you guesstimate how old antarctic ice sheets are? Well, Steven D. Emslie has. The North Carolina university professor uses a particular species of penguins and radio carbon dating methods to determine the age of the Antarctic ice sheets. The...
According to a recently released report, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will have to work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to evolve a global scientific agreement on minimally disruptive ways to...
It is a well established fact that oceans play a pivotal role in global warming, with its huge surface layers absorbing a large quantity of heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Thus, a never-before-seen ocean current eddy has thrown...
A large piece of ice is splitting off the Amery Ice Shelf in the east of Antarctica. Large means, 900 square kilometers! Yes, the piece of ice -- known as the "loose tooth" -- began moving apart the shelf more than a decade ago.
And, to track...
When asked, why is the sea levels rising, scientists and even laymen would immediately give a universally known reply - melting of giant ice sheets in the Antarctica and Greenland. But, do you know, this ice shedding is just 12% of the current rate...
Paris has witnessed the launch of one of the world's biggest research programs in the past fifty years as part of the $1.5bn (£763m) International Polar Year (IPY) program with a bid to study the north and south poles.
With climate change at the...
Two satellites (ICESat and RADARSAT0) have helped the researchers to spot the lakes and ice moving above them. Four new large under ice lakes at the start of massive ice stream in East Antarctica have been found. Ice is continually sliding off Antarctica...
One of the Earth's last great frontiers, Antarctica presents beneath its hidden depths a forbidding environment for life. Beneath the snow, ice and bitter cold of Antarctica, scientists have discovered a network of lakes that fill and empty with rapidly...
The Adelie penguin chicks are a great indicator of rising global warming. The first black fluffballed-chicks of the Adelie penguin this season, have started hatching more in the south compared to the fewer ones in the further north. According to...
The Earth is getting warmer, and scientists mostly agree that humans bear some blame. It's easy to see how global warming could flood cities and ruin harvests. More recently, researchers raised the alarm that our planet could also assist the...
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