When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...
The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ...
Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics ...
After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.
The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal ...
Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in elephant seals.
Australian scientists have found hundreds of dead seal pups on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic with signs that suggest they were killed by a destructive bird flu that has swept most of the planet, ...
On Feb. 9, the first confirmed case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was discovered in Antarctica near Argentina’s Primavera Station and confirmed on Feb. 24 by the Spanish National ...