Nicoletta Cannone measured the growth of Antarctic’s only two native flowering plants, Deschampsia Antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis, on Signy Island Rising temperatures in Antarctica have ...

Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by extreme heat events ...

Antarctica once teemed with forest life, a new study finds. But the world's seas and oceans looked different during one of ...

Polar regions also tend to be very dry, with annual precipitation below 250mm. So, in fact, they’re cold deserts! So, with these harsh conditions how do plants survive? In the Arctic only about ...

especially in the High Antarctic. Here we circumvented logistical difficulties in conducting winter plankton sampling by using the 100-μm primary filter on the desalination plant at Scott Base in ...

to Antarctica, to feed on them. They are also the foundation of a healthy ocean - part of a virtuous cycle: Whales eat krill, krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ice, and those plants ...

A team of scientists has identified a plant capable of surviving and growing in the harsh conditions of Mars, according to a report by The Guardian. This research is the first to explore the ...