Our satellites are dispassionate observers of Earth’s climate change. From their vantage point they watch as pack ice slowly ...

Antarctica is becoming greener due to climate change. (Michala Garrison, based on data from Roland, T.P., et al. 2024).

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

The argument that Antarctica holds more than just piles of snow and ice is not particularly new, but thanks to the latest ...

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs. Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the ...

well within the Antarctic Circle. With its latest finding, the team is excited to put even more evidence behind the theory. "This fascinating find also indicates in more detail how the forest we ...

This discovery enriches the reconstruction of what could have been a temperate forest ecosystem in West Antarctica. According to previous studies, such as the one published in Nature in 2020, it is ...

well within the Antarctic Circle. With its latest finding, the team is excited to put even more evidence behind the theory. "This fascinating find also indicates in more detail how the forest we ...

"These are twigs similar to southern beech," she told BBC News. "I like to call them the remnants of the last forests of Antarctica. "They're probably Pliocene in age. What we're looking at is a ...

The findings are published in the journal Antarctic Science ... "This fascinating find also indicates in more detail how the forest we reconstructed in our Nature study from 2020 could have ...