In a blog entry, Mr al Subaihi likened the sparse beauty of the glaciers to the “purity of the dunes” in Al Ain. A little more than a week after setting off on an environmental expedition to Antarctica, a group of Emiratis have already sailed through five-metre-high waves, spotted penguins and camped on the frozen […]
A new report by scientists from NASA shows that ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting more quickly than previously predicted. Furthermore, the rate of melting is increasing. According to the report this will cause such a great amount of water to be released into the Earth’s oceans that sea level could rise half […]
Researchers have drilled kilometers deep into glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica in order to extract ice samples from as far back as 500 thousand years ago. These ‘ice cores’ can then be analyzed in order to obtain historical climate data. So far researchers have found that the Earth has in the past experienced rapid climate […]
Having just completed an expedition to Antarctica, an 18 member team from the Indian army will now try to scale the eighth highest mountain peak – Mount Manaslu (8,163 meters ) in Nepal between march and june.The expedition is flagged off by Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt General V S Tonk and would be […]
Researcher at Columbia University shows that Antarctic ice is not only created by falling snow but also by continous melting and refreezing on the bottom of the vast ice shield. This not only visibly alters the surface ice, but also impacts climate studies as air trapped in the ice is an indicator on climate changes […]
Creating awareness on the effects of pollution is not enough but it has to raise among the world population so that Global warming can be minimized to stop melting of the earth’s 2 poles. This is what is strongly felt by 6 Emiratis who are part of an expedition of 68 people from India, China, […]
This article is basically about the research work by Akinori Takahashi and Yuki Watanabe ,associate professor and assistant professor at the national Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) on Adelie penguins.Video cameras capable of being turned on automatically when detecting water and then taping up to 90 minutes have been attached to the aquatic birds to […]
Glen Avery, Director of Instructional Technology in the Houghton library just ran a marathon in Antarctica. Avery’s feat, in this Southernmost continent with a special status where no one can leave absolutely any impact on the environment, is applaudable . He still needs to run in Asia and South America to fulfill his goal of […]