Iceberg was a wildlife concern - but South Georgia is a conservation success story
South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...
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Inside Antarctica’s plague-infested penguin colonies
A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...
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Canada and the Antarctic
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 ...
Avian influenza H5N1 in subantarctic region raise alert level for Australian islands
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu travelled 6,600 kilometres over the sea to Kerguelen Island, which is just 440km from ...
Having a whale of a time! Never-before-seen photos capture life on a British whaling ship in the 1940s - two decades before UK stopped barbaric trade
The black and white images are a reminder of Britain's centuries-long involvement in a trade that came to be abhorred by most ...
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Giant Petrels Gang Up On King Penguin and Eat It Alive
While their aggressive behavior might seem brutal to human observers, it’s a testament to the giant petrel’s survival instincts. In the harsh environments they inhabit, from sub-Antarctic islands to ...
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Survival Secrets of Antarctica’s Largest Land-Dwelling Creature Are Finally Revealed
Antarctica’s only native insect, the Antarctic midge, has finally given up some of its tightly held survival secrets, thanks to a new study by researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University. Researchers ...
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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's ice
Related: Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden beneath the ice — and uncovered a never-before-seen ecosystem Lake Vostok is about 150 miles (240 km) long and 30 miles (50 km ...
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Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica
An expedition led by Spanish virologist Antonio Alcamí has confirmed the presence of the virus “in all animal species detected at each site” on six islands in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula, ...
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This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another
Jane Younger receives funding from the Australian Research Council, WIRES Australia, the Geoffrey Evans Trust and the National Geographic Society. Australia’s Antarctic territory represents the ...
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Antarctic engineers p-p-p-pick up a new team member
to work on a construction project for the British Antarctic Survey. It involves a new building for Rothera Research Station and resurfacing its runway. But keeping Mr Cox just as busy is a playful ...