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.

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

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 ...

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the ...