Antarctica, often considered the last pristine wilderness, is undergoing a striking transformation. Once dominated by vast ...

This may come as a surprise to some, who would expect Antarctica to have a landscape of pure ice. Subverting this expectation ...

As Antarctica warms due to climate change, an unexpected phenomenon is occurring: the “greening” of the continent.

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, virtually uninhabited because of how cold it is and how much of the ...

“Soil in Antarctica is mostly poor or non-existent, but this increase in plant life will add organic matter, and facilitate soil formation – potentially paving the way for other plants to gro ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

For many millions of years, as the Earth enjoyed its balmy, hot-house atmosphere, Antarctica was a thriving habitat for a variety of species—even after the dinosaurs. Until, that is, roughly 34 ...

if we can find traces of life included in the amber. This discovery allows a journey to the past in yet another more direct ...

Satellite images show the area covered by vegetation has grown dramatically and is now 10 times larger than it was four decades ago and the rate of change is speeding up.

For decades Antarctica has reeled from a series of ... “Of course, with this increase in plant life, we’re going to see increased soil formation, and the risk of colonization by non-native ...

The introductory wall label in the exhibition in Hobart cites Edmund Halley as the first man to sketch tabular icebergs inthe ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white ... we had some idea that the plants there have been growing faster in recent decades,” Roland said.