Antarctica Financial News

climate change is reaching its limit. For six of the past seven years, the tropical Pacific Ocean has been close to or cooler than normal and has been absorbing excess heat from the atmosphere, according to Michael McPhaden, senior scientist at the NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. Now with a strong El Niño pattern underway in the Pacific, that excess heat is being released to the atmosphere where it is affecting ocean circulation patterns and contributing to the spate of marine heat waves in different parts of the globe, McPhaden said.

Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish

Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish

Antarctica's iconic symbol, the emperor Penguins is at the risk of 'quasi extinction' due to the abrupt reduction in sea ice. According to a study published Thursday by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey, colonies of emperor penguins failed to breed at a level never seen before in Antarctica. The study predicted that 90% of the emperor penguins “will be quasi-extinct" by the end of the century under the current global warming trajectory.

climate change is getting peppered with new words and phrases. Here’s a handful to mull over: The psychological impact that climate events can have on communities living in trauma and others worried about their future and that of future generations. The American Psychological Association defines eco-anxiety as “an overwhelming sense of fear, sadness, and dread in the face of a warming planet".

Melting glaciers could create new ecosystems covering an area between the size of Nepal and Finland by the year 2100, researchers said. Glacial area outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could be halved because of human-caused climate change under a high-emissions scenario, they said in a study published in the journal Nature. This glacial melting could cause a rapid ecological shift as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitat, they wrote. However, analyses of this change at a global scale are lacking, they said. Jean-Baptiste Bosson, from the Conservatory of Natural Areas of Haute-Savoie, France, and colleagues used a global glacier evolution model to examine the predicted twenty-first century trajectory of 650,000 square kilometres (sqkm) of glaciers found outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Deglaciation, or glacial retreat, will continue to occur at a similar rate regardless of the climate scenario until 2040, the modelling predicted using glacier outlines, digital elevation models of subglacial terrain and climatic data.

Shares of Sona BLW Precision Forgings(up 1.06 per cent), TVS Motor Company(up 0.72 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra(up 0.69 per cent), TIINDIA(up 0.47 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries(up 0.38 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, Samvardhana Motherson International(down 2.89 per cent), Bharat Forge(down 1.31 per cent), Hero MotoCorp(down 0.78 per cent), Ashok Leyland(down 0.72 per cent) and Bosch(down 0.7 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

Shares of IndusInd Bank(up 1.54 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, AU Small Finance Bank(down 2.16 per cent), Kotak Mahindra Bank(down 1.67 per cent), Bandhan Bank(down 1.51 per cent), Bank of Baroda(down 1.11 per cent) and Axis Bank(down 1.08 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

Shares of Coforge(up 1.56 per cent), Tech Mahindra(up 0.64 per cent), Wipro(up 0.2 per cent) and LTIMindtree Ltd(up 0.05 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack. On the other hand, L&T Technology(down 1.07 per cent), HCL Technologies(down 0.86 per cent), MPhasis(down 0.61 per cent), Tata Consultancy(down 0.59 per cent) and Infosys(down 0.38 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.

Domestic benchmark index NSE Nifty ended 89.45 points down at 19543.1, while the BSE Sensex closed 307.63 points down at 65688.18. On the other hand, Hindustan Comp, Zee Ent., Antarctica Ltd, Niraj Cement and Sabar Flex India stocks hit their fresh 52-week highs today.

Domestic benchmark index NSE Nifty fell 89.65 points to 19542.9, while the BSE Sensex traded 332.62 points down at 65663.19. On the other hand, Gandhi Special, Niraj Cement, Hindustan Comp, Antarctica Ltd and Prakash Pipes stocks hit their fresh 52-week highs today.

Antarctic such as ocean heatwaves and ice loss will certainly become more common and severe, warn researchers at the University of Exeter, UK. The study reviews evidence of extreme events in Antarctica continent and the Southern Ocean, involving weather, sea ice, ocean temperatures, glacier and ice shelf systems, and biodiversity on land and sea. With drastic action now needed to limit global warming to the Paris agreement target of 1.5°C, the researchers have warned that recent extremes in the region may be the tip of the iceberg.

Copernicus Climate Change Service, a division of the European Union's space programme, announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth of a degree, so this margin is unusual. «These records have dire consequences for both people and the planet exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events,» said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.

rising temperatures of ocean water, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said that the average temperature touched 20.96 degrees Celsius or 69.7 Fahrenheit at the end of July this year. The previous highest temperature was recorded at 20.9 degrees Celsius in 2016.

Airline Regional Express (Rex) has bolstered its pitch to win a government tender to provide aerial services in the Antarctic by teaming up with Helicopter Resources to bid for the contract.

European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus has become the first ever dead satellite that was assisted back to earth in a bid to avoid space debris. The Aeolus spacecraft, also known as ESA's wind mission, was guided to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, after running out of fuel by the mission officials at ESA. It landed in Antarctica on July 28.

Antarctica's sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year, according to CNN. Every year, Antarctic sea ice shrinks to its lowest levels towards the end of February, during the continent's summer. The sea ice then builds back up over the winter.

Antarctica's sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year, according to CNN. Every year, Antarctic sea ice shrinks to its lowest levels towards the end of February, during the continent's summer. The sea ice then builds back up over the winter.

Antarctica, a remarkable discovery of a pyramid-like mountain has captivated the internet. While some have been quick to speculate on the involvement of aliens or ancient civilizations, experts reveal that these ice pyramids are entirely natural formations.

Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday sought to collaborate with the European Union in using innovative and non-invasive approaches for inventorisation and documentation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Rijiju mentioned this during his meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Commissioner for Environment, Ocean and Fisheries.

HNI will be keen to book a seat on a luxury liner to Antarctica, or go jaunting off as the first lot of space tourists. The latter are more of the Marie Antoinette variety, who really have no clue of what lies out there and how things may be changing even on the wealthy status front.