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This guide outlines the opportunities and processes for Indian researchers eager to explore Antarctica.
A few months after India launched its first-ever annual Arctic winter expedition in December 2018, the country is now proudly hosting 400+ delegates from 56+ countries in Kochi at the 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
Although the country currently has two research centres in Antarctica, it relies on a chartered ship for travel to and from those locations.
The Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) was speaking on the topic ‘Antarctica and Climate Change’ at the Antarctica Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) held in Kochi recently.
The Arctic is warming between two and four times faster than the rest of the planet and holds glaciers, forests and carbon-rich frozen soils at risk of irreversible change that could reverberate across the planet.
Norse Atlantic Airways, a Norwegian airline, made an unusual landing of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Antarctica.
The study's findings also suggest the ocean would not be able to absorb as much carbon dioxide as its upper layers become more stratified, leaving more CO2 in the atmosphere.
The Bill proposes to prohibit Indian expeditions to Antarctica without a permit or written authorisation of another party to the Antarctic Treaty.
The oldest continuous record of Antarctic ice, collected by drilling miles down from the continent's surface, currently goes back about 800,000 years.
According to the study, the event occurred during the 2019 winter on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, Live Science reported.
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