Small plants are found in the form of moss. They grow incredibly slowly, at just 1mm/year and in addition to their importance in the Antarctic ecology, they are valued for what they reveal about ...

Roving icebergs unleashed by climate change have decimated the variety of life on the sea floor near the West Antarctic Peninsula in just 16 years, according to a new study. Researchers with the ...

Moss banks that grow along the Antarctic Peninsula, seen here in 2008, have steadily increased as a result of warmer temperatures and an increase in ice-free land. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters) ...

Antarctica has no trees, but the moss shoots act somewhat like tree rings, recording evidence of environmental conditions as they grow. Now, Australian scientists have figured out how to decipher the ...

Areas sampled included three Antarctic islands -- Elephant Island, Ardley Island, and Green Island -- where the deepest and oldest moss banks grow, said the report.

QUT researchers have developed an advanced remote sensing method for accurately detecting and mapping Antarctica's delicate ...

This image provided by the British Antarctic Survey shows a plant that scientists revived which was frozen beneath the Antarctic ice and seemingly lifeless since the days of Attila the Hun, The simple ...

Coverage of likely vegetation on the Antarctic Peninsula increased almost 14-fold between 1986 and 2021, growing from 0.863 square kilometres to 11.947 square kilometres.

A map of the change in vegetated area on the Antarctic Peninsula between 1986. Map courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory. What the scientists found was stunning. Coverage of likely vegetation on the ...