This is what the rainforest that grew on the Falkland Islands 15-30 million years ago may have looked like. Illustration: Benedikta Rabius The Falkland Islands, now treeless, looked very different during the Cenozoic period 15-30 million years ago. By chance,...
The ruins of a Norse house (Photo: Peter via Wikicommons CC BY-SA 3.0) Norse settlers living in south-western Greenland were able to rely on driftwood and native dwarf woody plants for building material for houses and ships and for heating, an Icelandic archaeologist...
Grant’s caribou are one of the largest populations of caribou in the world and make the longest migration of any land animal. Image: Florian Shulz The great movements of caribou herds in northern Alaska are thousands of years old. The soil of the great prairies...
Object left by Australian explorers in Mawson’s Huts, sometimes referred to as “the birthplace of Australian Antarctic heritage”. Image: David Killick Microscopic germs flourish in the frames of the shelters built during the heroic age of polar...