A new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions are leading to a severe decline in their populations in ...

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 ...

The moss comes from Signy Island, a small, glacier-covered island in the Drake Passage offshore of the Antarctic Peninsula. On Antarctic islands and the continent's coastline, thick, lush moss ...

Produced at a 1:100,000 scale for the archipelago and 1:10,000 scale for Signy Island, these new maps incorporate extensive data on key geographical features, including contours, mountain spot ...

said the regrowth occurred in a core sample taken from a gigantic bank of moss on remote Signy Island. “These mosses were basically in a very long-term deep freeze,” co-author and terrestrial ...

Unfortunately, we can add another to the list. An invasive insect species is spreading across Signy Island in Antarctica, endangering the local ecosystem. It’s a species of flightless midge, ...

Convey points to the damage fur seals have caused on Signy Island, one of the South Orkney Islands, where the landscape, including the fragile mosses and lichens that grow there, has been heavily ...

Another study closely observed the population size of the three penguin species over a 38-year period at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, per the National Library of Medicine. Researchers ...

Penguins - and a cheesy movie' Derren Fox, 52, is a zoological field assistant at Signy Island Research Station, which is on one of the remote South Orkney Islands, about 370 miles (600km ...