Antarctica

Supplied Southern Lakes Helicopters Te Anau pilot Andrew Hefford helps load the company’s squirrel helicopter onto a US Airforce Boeing C17 Globemaster in Christchurch on October 11. The helicopter, pilot and an engineer were flown to Antarctica where they will fly scientists around the continent. Southland helicopter pilots will resume…

Paul Peticoff, left, checks a customer’s proof of vaccination at Diana’s Oyster Bar and Grill in Scarborough, Ont., on Oct. 5, 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Restaurants Canada says it’s “extremely disappointed” that the Ontario government has chosen to lift capacity limits in some venues, but not for the…

A research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has completed a first-ever global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica, showing that there are significantly fewer seals than previously thought. Documenting the seals' population trends over time will help scientists better understand the effects of climate change…

Ice melange, a combination of ice shelf fragments, windblown snow and frozen seawater, can act as a glue to fuse large rifts in floating ice in Antarctica. Researchers at UCI and NASA JPL found that a thinning of the substance over time can cause rifts to open, leading to the…

Home News Science & Astronomy The 2021 ozone hole over Antarctica is among the 25% largest in recorded history. (Image credit: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, ECMWF.) A giant ozone hole has opened up over Antarctica this year. Already larger than the entire ice-covered continent, the ozone hole has surpassed the…

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say the hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer over the Southern Hemisphere is larger than usual this year and already surpasses the size of Antarctica. The European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said Thursday that the so-called ozone hole, which appears every year during the…

SINGAPORE, Sept 22, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Gradiant, an end-to-end cleantech water treatment solutions provider, announced that it has secured 26 new projects in 2021 year-to-date (YTD) across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Four of the projects will be delivered as design-build-own-operate-manage (DBOOM) contracts for long-term concession periods of…

The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water, each is crowned in a diadem of bubbles.…

Curated by योगेश मिश्रा | नवभारतटाइम्स.कॉम | Updated: Sep 7, 2021, 12:58 PM Antarctica : अभी तक यह समझा जाता था कि पृथ्वी के हर कोने पर जीवन मौजूद है। फिर चाहें इंसान के रूप में हो, जीव के रूप में हो या सूक्ष्म जीव के रूप में। हालांकि एक…

Antarctica is melting. Its future could be catastrophicRead More