A discovery in Antarctica has revealed something few scientists would have expected: a reversal of its decades-long ice loss.

It might seem like it would be the snowiest place on Earth, but much of Antarctica rarely sees significant snow or rain. It ...

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Where could Uncle Bob have been? Chrissie: Well Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world, so maybe he sheltered near those big mountains that run down the middle.

Foreign plants such as annual bluegrass are establishing themselves on Antarctica, whose status as the coldest and driest continent had long made it one of the most pristine environments on Earth.

Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest place in the world, and is often considered the most isolated and pristine. But now, because of human impacts, the Earth’s southernmost continent is rapidly ...