Antarctica under threat from invasive species

Over millennia, Antarctica’s geographic isolation has created a unique biological environment. However, this is increasingly under threat from climate change and human visitors. People bring species that could never reach the continent on their own.

New types of grass and fly are already making themselves at home according to recent scientific research. Read more here.

The original research is here: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaaz0888