Antarctica is warming at a rate so rapid that the frozen region’s green vegetation has grown tenfold in the past four decades, according to a concerning new report in the journal “Nature ...

Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, according to new research, sparking concerns about the changing ...

When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

The outlook for "Doomsday Glacier" just got gloomier. Scientists are warning the Antarctic Ice Sheet, known formally as the Thwaites Glacier, will deteriorate "further and faster" and that sea ...

Why Trust Us? The Earth’s poles are warming more rapidly that other parts of the planet, and now a new study shows that vegetation is beginning to return to the Antarctic Peninsula. This patch ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Plant cover on the northern Antarctic Peninsula expanded more than 12 times over the past 35 years, a new study has found. Satellite imagery analysis ...

Green Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, despite the name, is greener than expected (Picture: Matt Amesbury/University of Exeter/PA Wire) The continent of Antarctica is turning green so ...

Antarctica is turning green at an alarming rate as events of extreme heat have reshaped the continent’s landscape over the past few decades. Using satellite data, a team of scientists captured ...

The challenges of reaching such unforgiving destinations stirred excitement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with expeditions venturing to Antarctica and the Arctic. Some achieved pioneering ...

Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate change in the region. The area covered by vegetation in the ...

Oct. 4 (UPI) --The Antarctic is rapidly greening due to climate change global warming, according to a new study Friday from the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Exeter and ...

Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, clocking in at the second lowest in a record stretching back to 1979, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice ...