Scientists recently discovered that plant life is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning the edges of a once-barren ...

From 1986 to 2021, moss-covered areas on the Antarctic Peninsula expanded from less than one square kilometer to nearly 12 ...

The amount of vegetated area on the Antarctic Peninsula has grown nearly 14 times over since the middle of the 1980s ...

This Flora provides the first comprehensive description, with keys, of all known species and varieties of moss in the Antarctic biome. It has involved microscopic examination of around 10,000 ...

Some species of Antarctic moss even grow as underwater 'pillars' in lakes. Stephen Chown, director of Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF), is charged with understanding and ...

CFC ban reduced global warming, say scientists Ozone layer 'rescued' from CFC damage Climate kills ancient Antarctic moss The annual appearance of this hole usually peaks in September and October ...

A blanket of snow and plenty of penguins sounds like a Christmas card - but for Dale Ellis, who is spending the festive ...

"But in some areas there are lush, green moss beds that emerge from under the snow for a growing period of maybe six weeks." While West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula are some of the ...

MUST SEE: Ancient 'lost world' discovered deep under Antarctic ice “Moss communities have a central role in the conversion of bare rock surfaces to vegetated ground,” they said in the study ...

Seiko has announced a new limited edition member of the Prospex family of diver’s watches, called The Antarctica. The watch was inspired by a forest of centuries-old moss pillars, discovered on ...