About 120 million years ago, southern Australia was not the sunny, temperate land we know today. Instead, it lay within the polar circle, blanketed by months of darkness and icy winds. But in the face ...

Summer-only warming experiments underestimate climate change effects on plants compared to year-round temperature increases.

Emperor penguins in Antarctica face a severe population decline. Satellite images reveal a 22% drop in numbers between 2009 and 2024 in a key region. This decline is faster than earlier projections.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some tips for making your garden a haven not just for humans, but ...

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon’s “humongous fungus” was considered the world’s largest organism.

In places like Antarctica, small things can make a difference. Scientists are finding that penguin waste is helping form clouds, which could be offsetting the effects of climate change.

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Life in Antarctica during mid-winter is defined by its absence of daylight.As the Australian Antarctic Program describes it: "For a few weeks each year the sun fails to rise on the world's most ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Terrestrial Life of the Antarctic ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 3 (September 1962), p. 212 doi:10.1038 ...

Antarctica has gained some ice in certain areas despite global warming, NASA satellites have discovered. Researchers said that the continent lost several ice sheets in the past two decades, but it ...

After scientists reported a brief but notable uptick in ice mass in Antarctica, climate skeptics utilized the data to claim the continent does not suffer from human-induced warming. This is false ...