"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In parts of Antarctica the winter temperature can be minus 60°C. Scientists do experiments to see how the cold affects humans of the world. They also look at the animals and any plants.

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

For the first time ever, researchers have discovered an amber fossil in Antarctica. It provides the best evidence there is [… ...

Rising temperatures in Antarctica have seen two species of plants grow quicker, in a ten year period, because of climate change, according to an article published in Current Biology under the ...

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 ...