Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth. Surprised? A ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

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 ...

Reams of scientific papers and accounts of the Antarctic winter had prepared me ... dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing brain function.

Over time, Antarctica may evolve from a cold desert reminiscent of the Martian landscape to an ecosystem akin to Arctic ...

Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate change. That is according to a study of the ...

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 ...

Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising ...