A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all ...

More information: Miriam A. Slodownik, The non‐flowering plants of a near‐polar forest in East Gondwana, Tasmania, Australia, during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, American Journal 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 ...

Polar habitats are often cold, windy and covered in frozen snow and ice. At the top of the Earth is the North Pole, and at the bottom of the Earth is the South Pole. We are here. But have you ever ...

The Arctic is warming faster than any region on Earth. See how climate change is dramatically transforming this polar landscape and the animals and plants that depend on it.

The polar regions are areas of extreme cold and harsh conditions. This hinders human exploration, leaving them relatively ...