Hyderabad: From competing in Limca races to being the only person of Indian origin to win the half marathon in Antarctica, Mohan Ambati’s journey is a fascinating one. “It was a unique experience. It was like I was on a different planet, rather than a continent,” said Ambati, 53, a Hyderabadi settled in the United […]
Hyderabad: When we think of Antarctica, we picture vast, continuous ice sheets and glaciers, with maybe a penguin or two thrown in. Yet most Antarctic plants and animals live in the permanently ice-free areas that cover about 1% of the continent. A new research predicts that due to climate change more than 17,000 square km […]
The Antarctic Treaty, an unprecedented international agreement to govern the continent together entered into force in 1961 and currently has 54 parties.
The new images of the iceberg's big break were captured by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, an Earth-observing project made up of two orbiting satellites: Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B.
The survey covers 215,000 mountain glaciers spread around the planet, the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the ice shelves floating around Antarctica, and sea ice drifting in the Arctic and Southern Oceans
It's very, very white, everywhere you look. There are hundreds of thousands of penguins. But there are also beautiful rocky beaches, which on a sunny day make you feel like you could have a cheeky swim
