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 ...

While Britain, Argentina, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand and Chile have long held territorial claims over the vast ...

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.

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.

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

Saudi Arabia and even Iran are looking to secure a foothold on the continent. Calls to modernise the treaty to create a new global agreement for governing Antarctica would require unanimous ...

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

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...