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

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.

The image most people have of penguins is how they look on land — wearing their flightlessness as a burden for all to see, ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ...

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

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 ...