Antarctica

Home News Sea anemones and filter feeders cling to the rocks hundreds of feet below the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, where a gargantuan iceberg just broke free. (Image credit: Courtesy the Alfred Wegener Institute) About two weeks ago, an iceberg large enough to hold New York City nearly two…

Circle of Confusion Television Studios and Big Talk Productions are teaming on an expansive and epic series adaptation of award-winning author Paul McAuley’s acclaimed science fiction novel “Austral”. The story is set in Antarctica during the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier…

Antarctica’s northern George VI Ice Shelf experienced record melting during the 2019-2020 summer season compared with 31 previous summers of dramatically lower melt, a University of Colorado Boulder-led study found. The extreme melt coincided with record-setting stretches when local surface air temperatures were at or above the freezing point. According…

Home News An photograph shows the surface portion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. (Image credit: Martin Wolf/IceCube/NSF) The most remote particle detector on Earth has detected the most energetic antimatter particle ever: a single ultralight particle that smacked into the Antarctic ice with the (relatively) thundering energy of 6,300 flying…

In 1813, the East India Company’s James Forbes published an explosive story about monkeys. While traveling in India, he had stayed beneath an enormous banyan tree near the Narmada River. One day, a friend of his shot a langur monkey out of the tree, then took its body into a…

Women on board the Homeward Bound expedition in 2016. Photo / Supplied When 76 women scientists boarded a ship to Antarctica in the hopes of completing a transformative course on leadership, the last thing they expected was for one of them to later go public with allegations of rape. Even…

Up until recently, scientists thought that life couldn’t exist far beneath parts of Antarctica’s ice shelf. That assumption has been flipped on its head with the recent discovery of sponges in an area 260 kilometers (161 miles) inside the outer edge of an Antarctic ice shelf. According to a paper…

March 1, 2021 A large iceberg finally split from the Antarctic ice shelf, but another piece stubbornly hangs on. Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf finally calved a large iceberg in February 2021, two years after rifts opened rapidly across the ice and raised concerns about the shelf’s stability. The break was…

An aerial view of the iceberg that broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf. It measures roughly 490 square miles (1,270 square km) and is nearly 500 feet (150 meters) thick.Photo: British Antarctic SocietyAn iceberg more than 20 times the size of Manhattan split off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in…

Priyesh Mishra | नवभारतटाइम्स.कॉम | Updated: 28 Feb 2021, 11:49:00 PM Antarctica Iceberg Break: अंटार्कटिका में ब्रिटिश रिसर्च स्टेशन के पास एक विशाल हिमखंड टूट गया है। ब्रिटिश अंटार्कटिक सर्वेक्षण ने बताया है कि बर्फ के इस टुकड़े का क्षेत्रफल 1,270 वर्ग किलोमीटर है। अंटार्कटिका में विशाल हिमखंड टूटा हाइलाइट्स:अंटार्कटिका…