Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
Anchorage, Alaska, USReuters Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about […]
Snapshot: Danco Island, Antarctica
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Climate change turning Antarctica’s snow green
London, UKReuters Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are helping the formation and spread of “green snow” and it is becoming so prolific in places that it is even visible from space, […]
Forty years on, New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologised on Thursday for the then-government’s handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country’s worst peacetime disaster. On 28th November, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 was on a sightseeing tour from Auckland when […]