The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat. Instead, it is a vast expanse of ice and snow, covering an area of about 14 million ...

This Review is timely, given the recent application of new molecular-based research to the Antarctic and the culmination of the International Polar Year (Box 2). The harsh polar desert environment ...

I boarded a Hi Fly A340 chartered for White Desert Antarctica (Tour Operator) to fly to the seventh continent; Antarctica.

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s largest desert is in the South When people think of deserts, they usually picture the Sahara. However, the Antarctic Desert is the largest desert in the world, covering over 14 ...

Antarctica is a continent of remote natural ... Journey into the White Desert' takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African ...

Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss, and more recently, have even suggested lichen that can survive Mars-like conditions. But a Polish scientist says the physics of ...