Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

The Antarctic polar desert is the largest in the world, spanning an area of 14.2 million square kilometres. Not only is it the largest, but it is one of the coldest areas on earth, with ...

Antarctica can be called a desert because of its lack of precipitation (this is the amount of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from the sky). It has less precipitation than any other desert ...

A Belmont woman recently competed in a marathon, but not just any marathon, an ultra-marathon in Antarctica. Becca Pizzi won ...

Reams of scientific papers and accounts of the Antarctic winter had prepared me ... dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing brain function.

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, and least populated continent on the planet. It is in the Southern Hemisphere and it is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the ...

Ocean robots and other instruments are being deployed near Antarctica to better prepare Arizonans for future extreme heat and ...

Paid and presented by International Science Council. As witnesses to a changing climate over millennia, the Antarctic ice sheets are a unique record for studying past climate change informing ...

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The opportunity to learn about the animals, the history of the continent and its 1959-era Antarctic Treaty, and the effects of climate change on the vast polar desert most impressed Katie.

Rising temperatures in Antarctica have seen two species of plants grow quicker, in a ten year period, because of climate change, according to an article published in Current Biology under the ...

The number of tourist arrivals in Antarctica remains a simple factor of wealth—an Antarctic cruise can easily run US$10,000—and inclination. “Antarctic tourism is essentially market driven ...