Which are the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica? This isolated continent is rarely visited, but still holds a lot of ...

An international team of polar researchers has found several types of microbiota living in the water below the frozen surface ...

The last two years have seen unprecedented falls in the levels of sea ice around Antarctica, which serves as a protective ...

Antarctic: the coldest place on Earth and has a very important anniversary this year. That’s right, the icy continent was first discovered 200 years ago in January 2020, but exactly who ...

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Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. Scientists in Germany and the UK have now discovered amber there for the first time – the fossilized 'blood' of ancient coniferous trees ...

Antarctica, the frozen continent at the edge of the world, is home to breathtaking mysteries and untouched landscapes. During ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world. Roughly 90 ...

The Antarctic Peninsula is rapidly greening, with vegetation increasing tenfold since 1986 due to warming temperatures and ...

More information: Johann P. Klages et al, First discovery of Antarctic amber, Antarctic Science (2024). DOI: 10.1017/S0954102024000208 Journal information: Nature ...

Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...