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Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA We report on the pore size distribution and water retention of Beacon sandstone from Antarctica that harbours a ...

A surreal phenomenon is unfolding in one of the most barren, mystifying regions on Earth, and according to a recent article from NASA, scientists say that it could be a new byproduct of global warming ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole, and is home to lots of species such as penguins, whales, mosses, and lichens. Challenges in Antarctica One of the biggest challenges Antarctica faces is climate ...

we need East Antarctica to be unstable as well." This could certainly explain the presence of plants in the middle of a continent where today only lichens and mosses can survive. Jane Francis/BAS ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. Look at this slideshow to see how the position of the Earth ...

They mainly eat micro-algae and lichens. Researchers ... have acted to make it “one of the most contaminated regions of Antarctica”. By examining the collembola using an imaging technique ...

Antarctic mosses, the scientists point out ... but [the moss beds] are home to tiny animals and fungi and lichens and algal cells - think of them as a forest and at least 40% of it is suffering ...

As the frozen continent warms, plant life is spreading in regions of Antarctica that were once barren. A study this week revealed that mosses and lichens that previously struggled to survive ...