Bacteria living in the barren, ice-free soils of Antarctica have found a way to endure months of freezing darkness without sunlight or organic food. Instead of relying on photosynthesis, these ...

Bacteria living in Antarctica’s barren desert soils have developed a survival strategy that defies conventional biology: they ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants are falling out of sync with each other. Ecosystems are fraying. Coral ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

The climate change-fueled demise of one of Antarctica’s largest icebergs has ironically fueled a surge in nature’s ...

An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.

Picture a frozen colossus drifting silently through icy waters, big enough to blanket London twice over. That's iceberg A23a. As per the European Spac.

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It was the year 1961 when two helicopter pilot lieutenants, Don Roe and John Hickey, were flying over the western end of ...

The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...