Parmjit Singh Sehra

Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole

Arctic threat

Unusual polar weather could cause ozone loss

Plastic Pollution: Birds on every continent except Antarctica live amid human rubbish

While the blanket term of ‘plastic’ is used to refer to such pollution, many different materials litter the environment, like disposable masks

Scientists reconstruct history of world’s most powerful ocean current over last 5.3 million years and its link to global climate

Antarctic Circumpolar Current could grow stronger due to human-caused climate change, accelerate melting of Antarctic ice

Antarctica provides at least $276 billion a year in economic benefits to the world, new research finds

Antarctic research may have prevented significant damage to livelihoods and infrastructure across the world

Polar Ebb & Stockholm+50: We need urgent agreement to protect Antarctica, the Arctic

Countries should draft an Arctic Treaty System in line with its Antarctic counterpart

60 days in Iceberg Alley, drilling for marine sediment to decipher Earth’s climate 3 million years ago

Sediment layers are like a library of the Antarctic’s past environment

Breaking the ice on Antarctica

No dogs, please!

Krilling stuff

Melting pot

Rediscovering Antarctica

Frozen, but alive

Sudden impact

A meteorite that hit the Earth could have thrown life forms across the globe

Amanda, the detective

A device to trace neutrinos

Unholy ritual

Antarctic ozone hole again starts expanding

SAM will change

Global warming will warm Antarctica

Polar undercurrents

Rivers as large as the Thames found in the depths of Antarctica

98% of emperor penguin colonies could be extinct by 2100 as ice melts – can Endangered Species Act protection save them?

The future of emperor penguins and much of life on Earth, including humanity, ultimately depends upon the decisions made today

In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle

Everywhere we look, we find microbial communities making use of whatever energy source is available, creating the foundation for all of Earth&…

Enzymes that came in from the cold

The ability of microorganisms found in the Antarctic region to produce enzymes at low temperatures could save energy used for heating in …

Ice caps may grow in higher temperatures

Research shows that a warmer earth may not melt polar ice and cause sea levels to rise, as has been feared so far.

Thin ice

A debate on Earth's last virgin territory heats up as multinationals continue to stampede towards the Antarctic

Icy hot destination

What's a non-scientific visit to Antarctica like? Uncommon privilege, says urmi popat

A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level

Individual extreme weather events can also have a much longer-term effect on the world’s largest ice sheets