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According to the recent study led by scientists from Columbia University, the Antarctic Ozone hole is shrinking in the second half of India and it will be a great trouble for the rest of the whole world. Countries like India are expected to be the...
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Antarctica is a desert... and polecat is NOT a cat!
Reaction #1: So what? I’m not planning a trip to Antarctica, nor am I interested in owning a damned...
made popular Sep 21 2008
If you thought that the whole concept of the Star Trek Enterprise was fascinating to watch but far too fictitious to be true, then one can safely bet that you are right...
made popular Sep 8 2008
Rocks can be many things: they were probably our earliest weapons, they’ve been ballast on our journeys of exploration, even modern-art pieces.
made popular Aug 31 2008
There are millions of concept car and vehicle designs out there and with each passing day the number seems only to grow. So when you hear about another concept vehicle...
made popular Aug 14 2008
With all the inhabitable zones progressing to newer heights in terms of technology, the uninhabitable corners of our globe too gets a taste of avant-garde achievements...
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Washington
Bitter cold and floating sea ice long frustrated scientists seeking to study the ocean around Antarctica in winter. The solution: Send in the seals.
made popular Aug 11 2008
Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen...
made popular Aug 6 2008
The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also gives a glimpse of a what could be there in a century...
made popular Aug 5 2008
The continual shifting of continents has led to the theories that, as in the cases of Pangaea and Rodinia, many, if not all of our continents, were at one time or...
made popular Jul 24 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin...
made popular Jul 18 2008
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space...
made popular Jul 11 2008
The earthquake problems afflicting places like California and Japan are nothing in comparison to those experienced daily in Antarctica. A seismologist at Washington...
made popular Jun 6 2008
Scientists of Georgia Tech have come up with Snomote - a two foot small, fast and agile robot to explore the deep secrets of the unknown Antarctica, especially the...
made popular May 30 2008
AP, Atlanta
Robotic rovers have patrolled deep space and the deepest seas, but scientists are still struggling to create drones that can overcome the multiple challenges of...
made popular May 29 2008
Buried beneath several miles of ice in Antarctica are lakes ranging in size from Lake Ontario to lakes the size of Manhattan. Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake...
made popular May 11 2008
It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I...
made popular Apr 7 2008
From krill to king crabs, the collapse of a 160-square-mile portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica could mean many changes for wildlife at the bottom of the...
made popular Mar 31 2008
WASHINGTON: A chunk of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan Island has suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, according...
made popular Mar 27 2008
The ghast realities of global warming were splendidly picturized in the movie ‘The Day After tomorrow’. But the sad thing is we 6 billion individuals on...
made popular Mar 26 2008
AP, Washington
A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk.Satellite images show the runaway...
made popular Mar 25 2008
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The ozone hole over the Antarctic is the smallest in the last 5 years! At 25 million square kilometers, though it is still very large, the fact that it is shrinking is...
made popular Nov 17 2007
Oceans - the sole saver of our planet from global warming - now seem to be going hostile in assisting the world in its battle against climate change and foreseen...
made popular May 19 2007
In the past 20 years, the ozone loss in the Antarctic has been ‘massive’. Compared to the same phenomenon in the Arctic, a new study ahs found that the loss...
made popular Dec 26 2006
We all know hat the ozone hole over the Antarctic is recovering. But, it is recently discovered that it will recover nearly 20 years later than previously thought...
made popular Jul 3 2006
Here is a good news for the environmentalists. The ozone hole over the Antarctic, which has all through a concern for scientists, is likely to begin contracting in the...
made popular May 22 2006
The greenhouse gases seem to have reached the stage of no return! They are still building up in the atmosphere rising the planet’s temperature. Though methane is...
made popular May 2 2006
To add to the prolonged healing of the ozone hole, frigid temperatures in Europe and very cold air in the stratosphere have created a mini hole in its layer above the...
made popular Jan 24 2006
It may take 15 years longer to recover from the age old injuries than anticipated. It’s the gaping hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. But, the question is...
made popular Dec 14 2005
What is Ozone Hole?
The ozone hole is a thinning break in the ozone layer. A depletion in the ozone layers called an ‘ozone hole’ when the detected amount...
made popular Dec 14 2005
NASA researchers determined the seasonal ozone hole that developed over Antarctica this year. It is found to be smaller this year than in previous years. During the...
made popular Dec 7 2005
A sigh of relief from increasing fears of space disasters. Compared to the all-time largest of 2003, the hole in the ozone layer this year will probably be slightly...
made popular Oct 19 2005
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