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Antarctica has been having a rough time of it lately, you may have heard. You know — greenhouse gases, warming oceans, trillion-ton icebergs breaking off the continent like a middle-aged man losing hair in the sink. Not the best century for the old South Pole. And now it turns out Antarctica has problems we didn’t even know about. Deep problems. ... Read More »

As global warming reshapes the Arctic and Antarctic, a new museum built by the son of a renowned French explorer aims to show “the beauty of polar landscapes” and illustrate the consequences of climate change. The centre in eastern France is “the only permanent museum devoted to the Arctic and Antarctic in the world,” said communications director Anthony Renou. Built ... Read More »

New Delhi: Earlier in January, the World Meteorological Organisation revealed that 2016 was the Earth’s warmest since record-keeping began in the 1880s. According to NOAA and NASA scientists, 2016 set a global heat record for the third year in a row, but seems that’s not enough as more hot weather is expected in the coming days, especially in India. In ... Read More »

OSLO:  Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. Against a trend of global warming and a steady retreat of ice at earth’s northern tip, ice floating on the Southern Ocean off Antarctica ... Read More »

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Quickly melting ice in the Arctic with no effort to stop it may someday bring a stage where critical ecological change is uncontrollable, a team of international scientists said in a “groundbreaking” new report Friday. In the Arctic Resilience Report, released Friday, the team of scientists said Arctic ice is melting faster than ever before and it ... Read More »

Why should there be so much excitement over the discovery — from the log books of two of Britain’s most famous explorers more than 100 years ago — that there was the same amount of ice floating round Antarctica then as there is today? To the surprise of academics from the University of Reading, the records kept by the expeditions ... Read More »

New Delhi: Reindeer herds in western Siberia went through a mass starvation in 2006 and 2013 due to two extreme episodes of icing and according to scientists, the reason behind both is the thinning sea ice and higher humidity in the Arctic Barents and Kara seas as more water escapes into the atmosphere. The unusual weather due to global warming, ... Read More »

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre produced this visualization of the disappearing older ice found in the Arctic. It’s long been known that the Arctic is losing sea ice at an increasingly rapid rate. Now NASA’s Goddard Space Center is allowing you to see just how dramatic the loss truly is. Almost all of the top 10 records for sea ice ... Read More »