Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - Antarctic marine creatures, from Space. The target of the new research effort is ...

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Tóth. The ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora including "micro-forests" of lichens, moss and two flowering plants, Antarctic hairgrass and pearlwort. They also sustain a variety of ...

Scientists track Antarctic krill via satellite to monitor ocean health amid climate change and fishing threats.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

A wildfire burning for weeks on Amsterdam Island, part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands, has so far destroyed 55 ...

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 ...

Amsterdam Island – part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands in the Indian Ocean – has seen more than half its territory ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.