We found that Antarctic mosses create their own miniature climates, and these can vary dramatically in a single square metre.

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

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Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest ...

Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plantDrosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining populations of this “meat-eating” flower, both of which have found themselves ...

The town of Greybull sent a disproportionately large number of workers to Antarctica in the '80s and '90s to keep the McMurdo ...

Unfortunately, one million endangered species could become extinct. On World Wildlife Day, learn who is at risk and how to ...

This year’s ozone hole over the Antarctic ranked as the fifth smallest since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA ...

The coldest place in the world is Vostok Station, Antarctica, where the lowest natural ground-level temperature ever recorded ...

Fusarium graminearum is a common fungal plant pathogen that creates problems for farmers across the U.S. It causes a disease in barley and wheat called Fusarium head blight, or scab. It can also ...