Antarctica

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…

Home News The team at the Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf captured an aerial photo of the North Rick crack in January 2021. (Image credit: Halley team/British Antarctic Survey) A giant iceberg, more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, just split off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice…

        | Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 16:58 Can a human survive in a colder environment say, at 1-degree centigrade without any gears or gizmos? Because, humans are warm-blooded animals, and our bodies, without proper protection, would lose all the energy while trying to maintain the ambient…

Researchers have discovered life forms that exist far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic. The findings have been published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. Experiment in Antarctica hinting at parallel universe to be taken with a grain of salt: Experts “This discovery is one of those fortunate…

A camera being lowered down the borehole. (Dr Huw Griffiths/British Antarctic Survey) The waters below Antarctica are amongst the most inhospitable environments on our planet - or so we thought. It's pitch dark, and temperatures are subzero; yet, when scientists drilled through an Antarctic ice shelf far from light or…