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

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

Indian-American Akshay Nirvana is on a solo journey to world's coldest and loneliest continent-Antarctica. He has embarked a ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

Former US Marine and author Akshay Nanavati has embarked on a daring 110-day solo ski expedition across Antarctica. He aims ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

An emperor penguin was rescued from an Australian beach after presumably making a 2,000-mile trek from its Antarctic habitat.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide was high in the Cretaceous, making the world in general a warmer place. Moreover, the lack of an ...

Recycled Percussion's Justin Spencer is undertaking a new challenge: running seven marathons on seven continents in seven ...