International Space Station(ISS) shared images of Aurora Australis as it streamed across the Earth’s atmosphere. Aurora Australis is also known as the southern lights and southern polar lights.

How International Space Station captured Aurora Australis images above Indian Ocean

A team of Indian scientists have discovered new plant species in Antarctica. A few years back, in 2017 this team of Polar biologists happened upon a species of moss while exploring the Ice-covered continent.

Indian scientists discover new  plant species in Antarctica

A giant ice-covered lake in Antarctica disappeared into thin air, causing panic among the scientific community. According to researchers, the lake disappeared in 2019’s winter season on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.

What caused a giant Antarctic lake to completely disappear in three days?

As an unprecedented heatwave ripped across the United States and Canada, the UN on Thursday recognised a new record high temperature for Antarctica at 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.

As US & Canada experience heatwave, UN confirms record heat in Antarctica

A new study has found that Polynesian seafarers likely reached Antarctica hundreds of years before the Western explorers usually credited with discovering the frozen continent.

Study shows Polynesian seafarers likely found Antarctica first

A huge iceberg, the world's largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said. The newly calved berg, designated A-76 by scientists, was spotted in recent satellite images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the space agency said in a statement posted on its website with a photo of the enormous, oblong ice sheet.

World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica

Climate change is altering life on our planet in all ways possible: climate patterns have become more unpredictable, bizarre weather is the new normal, and extreme temperatures a common occurrence across the world.

Scientists reveal how hot Antarctica will be by 2044 due to climate change

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A massive iceberg broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, video footage released on Friday showed. The massive ice structure, which was about the size of Greater London, broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Iceberg about size of Greater London breaks off in Antarctica

A vast iceberg almost the size of Greater London has broken away from the Antarctic ice shelf near a British research station, the British Antarctic Survey said Friday.

Giant iceberg breaks off near UK Antarctic base

A team of scientists have discovered life 3,000 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. How do the creatures living there survive? Which species do they belong to? Are they new to science? WION's Palki Sharma gets you a report.

Gravitas: An 'accidental' discovery of life in Antarctica

Scientists recently discovered life where they least expected it! Organisms found beneath a boulder on an Antarctic ice shelf could change how we perceive life on our planet.

Scientists discover life where it shouldn't exist in Antarctica

Scientists in the Antarctic are close to finalising a location to start drilling that could reveal the continuous record of Earth's climate dating back 1.5 million years.

Researchers close in to find drilling spot of Antarctic ice core 1.5 mn years old

After returning from Antarctica 53 years ago, Paul Grisham, a Navy meteorologist, most likely would not have expected that his lost wallet would be found and returned to him.

After 53 years, wallet lost in Antarctica reaches 91-year-old owner

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday off the coast of Antarctica, with authorities issuing a tsunami warning for Chile's Eduardo Frei base on the frigid continent, emergency officials said.

7.0-magnitude earthquake rocks coast of Antarctica

A68 - the gigantic iceberg, which is also the world's largest is moving from Antarctica in the Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of roughly 5,800 square kilometres and has been on its current course since 2017.

Explainer: Where's the world's largest iceberg A68 headed, and should we be worried?

Latest satellite images suggest the giant iceberg that's drifting through the south Atlantic has experiencing a major breakup. Images revealed on Tuesday shows a major fissures in this iceberg which is known as A68A.

Giant iceberg shatters into fragments

Antarctica has reportedly become the last of the Earth's seven continents to record deadly coronavirus infections after managing to avoid the pandemic for around nine months.

Covid-19 hits Antarctica: Now, earth's all seven continents have coronavirus infection

Antarctica has witnessed over 30,000 tremors since the end of August, according to the new research by scientists at the University of Chile, who recorded a surge in seismic activity that has intrigued researchers who study the remote icy continent.

Over 30,000 tremors rock Antarctica in three months, scientists say

More than 30,000 tremors have rocked Antarctica since the end of August, according to the University of Chile. This spike in seismic activity has intrigued researchers.

Antarctica rocked by 30,000 tremors in three months, researchers say

The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile has said. The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, where there are scientific and military bases from several countries, including Argentina, Chile and Britain.

Antarctic Peninsula at warmest in decades, study says

Describing the ice loss as "staggering," the group found that melting glaciers and ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise dramatically

Earth has lost 28 Trillion tonnes of ice since 1994 due to global warming

Satellites have discovered 11 previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica. WION's Palki Sharma tells you why this is a major discovery.

Gravitas: Satellites find new colonies of Emperor penguins

Nobody really knows why the leak happened, or the events leading up to it. A large quantity of methane is stored under the seabed in Antarctica, with this leak suspected to be a product of the warming of oceans.

Scientists discover a Methane leak in Antarctica's seabed

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