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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered amber deep below the surface of the Antarctic, evidence of a temperature rainforest 90 million ...

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 ...