Antarctica

London: Indian-origin British Sikh Army officer Preet Chandi, who made history by trekking to the South Pole, is now going for a record-breaking 1,100 miles trek across Antarctica -- solo and unaided! Captain Chandi, also known as "Polar…
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Onam is a festival celebrated by Malayalis to mark the harvest season in Kerala. The festival lasts for ten days and is celebrated with great splendor. This year, the festivities were dated from August 30, Tuesday, to September 8, Thursday.…
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San Francisco: Elon Musk's SpaceX has made it to Antarctica and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is testing one of its Starlink internet terminals at one of the most exteme locations in the world. The McMurdo Station at Antartica…
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Scientists recently discovered the existence of a hidden world of marine life under an ice shelf in Antarctica. The discovery was made 500m beneath Antarctic ice. The revelation happened when a team of esteemed scientists from New…
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New York: The global sea level rise caused by melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to increase 20 per cent by the end of this century, researchers have warned. The global sea level rise linked to melting of the West…
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Wellington: New Zealand's research institute in Antarctica is scaling back the number of projects planned for the upcoming season, in an effort to keep the continent free of coronavirus, it was reported on Tuesday. The government agency,…
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Sydney: Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 2019-20 summer period. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic…
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A powerful 7.1 magnitude struck the southern Pacific Ocean, close to the South Sandwich Islands north of Antarctica on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake initially reported as a magnitude 7.5, was in a remote area…
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