If a tiny, flightless midge establishes itself on mainland Antarctica, it could unleash outsized changes ... the midge’s biology and its transformation of peat moss banks on Signy Island, where it has ...

and snow in search of thermophilic bacteria on the volcanic slopes of Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly active volcano. Erebus rises some 3,660 meters from Ross Island, in the icy oceans near ...

Just this week, new scientific discoveries identified that some Antarctic bacteria live on air ... in the warmer parts of Antarctica, including Signy Island and the Antarctic Peninsula.

“If we extrapolate what we observed on Signy Island to other sites in Antarctica, a similar process can also occur,” says Cannone. “This means that the Antarctic landscape and biodiversity ...