Researchers drilling into a mossy bank on Signy Island in Antarctica British scientists ... surprised to see new shoots rapidly appear. While bacteria of a similar age have been recovered before ...

A tiny flightless midge which has colonized Antarctica's Signy Island is driving fundamental changes to the island's soil ecosystem, a study shows. A tiny flightless midge which has colonised ...

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.

these fur seals trample the fragile coastal vegetation that thrives on Antarctica’s limited ice-free terrain. Convey points to the damage fur seals have caused on Signy Island, one of the South ...

Signy Island, which lies 375 miles off Antarctica, has too harsh an environment ... which scientists have revived organisms – viruses, bacteria, plants, animals – that have been dormant ...

The spread of these species will cause changes in soil acidity, the bacteria and fungi ... golf courses — colonized Signy Island. “The ingression of alien species can induce a dramatic loss of the ...