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Dr Harsh K Gupta remembers the sequence of events that led to the establishment of Dakshin Gangotri, India’s first permanent research station in Antarctica, as if it happened yesterday. A year after he had moved to Thiruvananthapuram as director of the Centre for Earth Science Studies in 1982, a call for proposals to carry out…
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YouTuber Jeran Campanella, a popular ‘Flat Earther’ had his entire belief system shattered after he travelled nearly 14,000 kilometres from California to Antarctica and spent $37,000 to test his rather non-scientific theory. Prior to embarking on the trip, Mr Campanella was certain that Antarctica is just an “ice wall” where the sun rises and sets…
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After being grounded for over 30 years, the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, has started drifting in the Southern Ocean. This massive iceberg, which is roughly double the size of Greater London and weighs approximately one trillion tonnes, broke off from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Since then, it had remained stuck on the seabed…
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The presence of the virus was confirmed on Feb. 24 in samples of dead skua seabirds. A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region’s huge penguin colonies. “This discovery demonstrates for the first time that the…
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