Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of ...

NASA and the United States Geological Survey sent the first Landsat into space in 1975. Since then, they've launched eight ...

Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are ...

If all our fear and uncertainty over climate change could be distilled into a single statistic, then arguably it was delivered to an emergency summit on the future of the Antarctic last month.

Off the Antarctic Peninsula, Green Island serves as a key research ... Researchers warn that increased plant growth may signal deep changes in Antarctica's biology, potentially transforming ...

Antarctica has an average temperature of -30˚C but it can reach -60˚C in the coldest parts of the year. In the summer it is light for 24 hours of the day and in the winter months it is always dark.

And this is where our small green ... significant parts of it, had melted away - and that in its place was a large open seaway. This is hard to imagine when you look at maps of Antarctica today ...