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The Baishui glacier on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in the southern province of Yunnan in China is one of the fastest melting glaciers in the world as it has lost 60 per cent of its mass since 1982. (Photo: AP)

Glaciers shrinking at alarming rates due to global warming

The world's glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s.

9 April 2019 10:47 AM IST

The West Antarctic ice sheet was stable in 1992 but now, a quarter of the sheet is thinning. Should this ice sheet completely melt, global sea levels will rise by over five metres. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Antarctica's ice is melting faster than ever before

With ice melting from Antarctica's solid ice sheets, global sea levels are set to rise dangerously.

16 May 2019 4:40 PM IST

Unlike the Arctic, Antarctica is not warming and remains the coldest place on Earth, as well as its largest source of freshwater. (Photo: AFP)

Ice in Antarctic sea at record low

Antarctic sea ice in dizzying decline since 2014: study.

2 July 2019 11:08 AM IST

A view captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission of the A-76 iceberg off the Ronne Ice Shelf, in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica taken on March 9, 2021 - combined with a graphic of the Spanish island of Majorca for scale. - An iceberg the size of the island of Majorca has broken off from the Ronne ice pack in Antarctica, making it the largest iceberg in existence, according to images from a European Copernicus satellite, the European Space Agency said on May 20, 2021. (Photo by Handout / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP)

World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica: European Space Agency

The iceberg is around 170 kms long and 25 kms wide, with an area of 4,320 square kms, slightly larger than the Spanish...

20 May 2021 2:33 PM IST

King penguins seem to be able to move around quite a lot to find the safest breeding locations when things turn grim. (Photo: Pixabay)

Warming Antarctic risks diet of Emperor Penguins

The tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species, Emperor Penguin, have a varied menu that changes with the...

3 May 2018 7:58 PM IST

NASA predicsts that as the immense iceberg now heads into warmer waters, it is likely to disappear. (Photo: Pixabay)

World's largest iceberg set to disappear after 18-year-long journey to...

The iceberg, which is larger than the island of Jamaica broke away from the main continent in March 2000.

9 Jun 2018 10:07 AM IST

A group of seven Hyderabadis on a 13-day trip to Antarctica. (DC Photo)

Jet set, no-go

When setting off on a 13-day return trip to Antarctica, these seven Hyderabadis didn't imagine home could be so far

23 April 2020 10:20 AM IST

Trillion-tonne iceberg in Antarctica snaps, say scientists

Trillion-tonne iceberg in Antarctica snaps, say scientists

The massive ice cube, larger than the US state of Delaware, has a volume twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great...

12 July 2017 4:37 PM IST

A home designed to be away

A home designed to be away

An all-Indian team has set out to explore what Mars will be like to live on.

29 Jan 2017 4:45 AM IST

The West Antarctic ice sheet where Larsen C is located, holds enough frozen water to raise global oceans by at least four metres. (Photo: Pixabay)

Manhattan-sized ice block to break off in Antarctica

The rift has also widened, from less than 50 metres in 2011 to nearly 500 metres today

7 Jan 2017 11:00 AM IST

The latest imagery also details a group of three small, not yet released icebergs at the north end of the embayment. (Photo: NASA)

NASA unveils stunning images of massive Antarctic Iceberg

The satellite imagery is a composite of Landsat 8 as it passed on July 14 and July 21 and shows that the main berg,...

31 July 2017 12:54 PM IST

For the fable-hearted

British-Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam's new novel is a rich tapestry of realism and fable.

26 Feb 2017 5:07 AM IST