“Antarctica is acting as a canary in a coal mine, on climate and biodiversity change” Ms Cannone pointed out. Categories: Environment , Health & Science , Antarctica .

Animals and plants may be living in warm caves under Antarctica's ice, according to a study. Australian researchers said that Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Antarctica's Ross Island ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. Look at this slideshow to see how the position of the Earth ...

The largest deserts in the world have different attributes in terms of natural features. But they all share things like ...

It can be tricky to see sponges as animals, stationary and plant-like as they are, but they represent some of the ...

The researchers say this is the first study to show that the plants in East Antarctica are being affected ... but [the moss beds] are home to tiny animals and fungi and lichens and algal cells ...

Mosses are a major component of the vegetation in ice-free coastal regions of Antarctica. They play an important role in the colonisation of ... They serve as model organisms for physiological ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and mysterious plants. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie ...

We’ll know more by the end of the decade. As the frozen continent warms, plant life is spreading in regions of Antarctica that were once barren. A study this week revealed that mosses and ...