Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of ...

A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie Freiberg has discovered amber in Antarctica, offering ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie FreibergRoughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...

Only a few weeks ago, massive precipitation produced by the storm “Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern ...

Around 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees, allowing them to grow ...

A German-American research team has discovered two highly unusual bacterial species in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

a physicist in the Climate Dynamics Section of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). "As early as one or two weeks after a given event, so-called ...

Scientists in Germany have discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, revealing that around 90 million years ago, the ...