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 ...

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

Capable of surviving Antarctica's extreme cold and wind, moss beds can live for centuries or even millennia — and scientists have dubbed them "miniature old-growth forests". Moss is the ...

"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 ...

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

Suddenly, you find yourself in a dense, swampy forest, with insects buzzing between flowers, ferns, and conifers. Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. Scientists in Germany and ...

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

An artist's impression of what it might have looked like in West Antarctica 90 million years ago Scientists drilling off the coast of West Antarctica have found the fossil remains of forests that ...

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 ...

The fossils mean we now have amber samples from every continent, and provide information about Antarctica’s forests, which were once home to hardy dinosaurs. There are, however, great gaps in ...