Meltdown!

First evidence of Antarctic melting emerges

Arctic feels the heat

Toxic alcohols waft in from industrialised world

Planet melting

If global warming continues, polar ice caps will melt, wiping nations off our planet

On thin ice

Safe under water

Tiny marine life could be safe from harmful effects of ozone depletion

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Krill kill

Seas around the Antarctic are losing krill -- a crucial part of the marine and terrestrial food chain

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‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth

 A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement

Emperor penguin at risk from global warming

Study estimates penguin population in Antarctica to decline by 50 per cent

Warm cold relationship

Earth may have a 1,500-year temperature cycle that is governed by minor changes in the sunlight

Ozone crisis

Latest IPCC report clinches evidence of human-induced climate change

India gets remote-controlled polar vehicle

It will substantially enhance India’s capabilities to predict monsoon , says Harsh Vardhan

More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble

Annual extent of winter sea ice has stopped increasing and now we have had two years of record lows

Geopolitics

By another name?

More like a ritual

So much for scope and research scale

One hot day in June

India woke up to a phone call

"The ice"

That's what Antarctica is called

The cold rush

What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus

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World's biggest colossal squid found

Antarctica in a detailed mosaic

Antarctic Treaty meet steps up efforts to save marine ecology

Antarctic ice shelf collapses