Chrissie: No, sorry, I left the garage door open! Hahaha. Antarctica is a desert - but it's not hot, it's really, really cold. It's called a desert because it hardly ever rains. The South Pole is ...
She had been telling me how she ended up in Antarctica, now every other word ... dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing brain function.
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 ...
While the desolation of Antarctica's polar desert leads to it often being overlooked, the world's southernmost continent "has been one of the most rapidly warming parts of the planet" over the ...
Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate change. That is according to a study of the ...
Antarctica's harsh climate and remote location make it difficult for researchers to access many areas of the continent and birthed many strange phenomena, including icy deserts and warped gravity.
White Desert offers rich South African and international tourists a one-day trip from Cape Town to Antarctica. White Desert was founded in 2005 by polar explorers to make it possible for people to ...