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Fund cuts: Will US be forced off the icy continent?
The Trump administration has significantly reduced funding for both Antarctica’s largest research and logistics station, McMurdo, and the National...
Coronavirus reaches end of earth as first outbreak hits Antarctica
24 Dec 2020 5:16 AM ISTThe coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army...
Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' will melt faster than thought
12 April 2021 5:25 PM ISTThe supply of warm water to Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "doomsday glacier", is larger than previously thought, triggering...
Antarctica was once a land of fire and not ice
9 Nov 2021 3:12 AM ISTAntarctica was “first considered a region without high fires, but that changed,” said André Jasper of the University of Taquari Valley in Brazil.
This Antarctic post office offers jobs for people to count penguins
8 April 2022 12:38 PM ISTAccording to the BBC, the site is being opened to the public for the first time since Covid struck and the selected candidates will have to spend five...
SRMIST alumna reaches Antarctica as part of global expedition team
11 April 2022 5:31 AM ISTShe reached her destination by hoisting the SRMIST flag on Antarctica soil. She has joined the extraordinary youth representing other countries to...
Elon Musk’s affordable internet service Starlink debuts in Japan
11 Oct 2022 6:28 PM ISTStarlink is a constellation of satellites run by SpaceX. After 2023, it also aims to provide global mobile phone service.