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

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

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 ...

This southernmost discovery of amber offers new insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole, AWI said in a press ...

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

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 ...

Amber from Antarctica reveals a 90-million-year-old rainforest, transforming its frozen image into a verdant past of swampy forests, roots, and life-rich ecosystems.

Beneath the extreme cold of Antarctica, an unexpected treasure has emerged from the depths. A fragment of amber, a remnant of ...

Ancient amber found in Antarctica uncovers a 90-million-year-old rainforest, revealing insights into its warm, prehistoric ...

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 ...