A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of ...
"The great advantage of Antarctica is that one never gets ill," said Robert Scott. A lot can change in 100 years, and H5N1 is ...
Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...
A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...
Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...
Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...
New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...
Today, the black and white birds that live along the southern Ross Sea primarily eat Antarctic silverfish, a small, abundant fish that scientists consider a keystone species. But 4,000 years ago ...
Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend ...
"In general, it's become clear the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than we originally realised and has a larger volume of ice ...