Why is Antarctica like a living laboratory ?

Antarctica is like a living laboratory because by studying it we can gain an insight into our past, understand the climactic changes taking place in the present and predict how our future will be. We can gain insight into not just how our climate will be but also learn about the factors causing geological changes in our planet.

First and foremost, to visit Antarctica is to be part of history. one can study how the planet was formed. A study of Cordilleran folds and pre-Cambrian granite shields will tell us about the structure of our planet. A study of ice-core samples can give us data about Carbon dioxide levels that existed in the atmosphere in the past. We can also gain an insight into past global temperatures through a study of the amount of Carbon trapped in the ice-core samples.

Looking at how India and Antarctica were once part of the same continent, gives us an idea about the drifting of the continental plates can help us imagine how the planet will look like in the future. We can also predict accurately the impact of global warming on the entire planet by studying scientific data from Antarctica.