The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...
Antarctica, often considered the last pristine wilderness, is undergoing a striking transformation. Once dominated by vast ...
Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...
The area of depleted ozone over the Antarctic ranked the seventh smallest since recovery began in 1992. Credit: NASA. Climate ...
Kiwi climate researchers are part of an ambitious mission to recover critical geological records to help forecast future ...
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accumulated snow and begin the summer construction season.
Rescuers are trying to rehabilitate an emperor penguin that came ashore some 2,000 miles from its natural habitat, and what ...