The 16-year-old Rotorua Girls’ High School student is back from an expedition voyage to the subantarctic islands where she ...

The Antarctic midge is the only insect native to Antarctica, surviving extreme cold through a unique combination of dormancy ...

A study from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment offers fresh insights into ...

A dozen of them would fit on your fingernail. The greater Antarctic region also encompasses the Southern Ocean and islands south of the 60th parallel. In contrast to the Antarctic continent, the ...

Learn how this midge has a unique strategy for surviving what most organisms couldn’t.

As part of their ambitious goal to bring back the woolly mammoth by 2028, Colossal Biosciences has created what they've named ...

The analogy is quite apt when one wants to describe the Insect Cafe. Despite its name, the cafe is in reality, a structure of bamboo constructed with smaller “apartments” where different ...

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Hanseatic Inspiration has successfully completed its Antarctic semi-circumnavigation, a 32-day voyage from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Christchurch, New Zealand. Departing on January ...

Over the past 20 years the U.S. butterfly population has declined 22%, a dramatic loss that has scientists concerned. "The easy number to think about is the total number of butterflies in your yard.

As the New York Times reports, the event is an early warning sign of what's still to come as global warming is causing major changes in the Antarctic Peninsula. The iceberg, dubbed A23a ...

The main prey of the Asian hornet is honeybees, with one insect killing up to 50 bees a day, devastating entire colonies.

We can help protect nocturnal insects by: Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the ocean's salt levels, potentially disrupting the vital Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with profound ...