By Peter Hobson and Renju Jose CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian scientists have found hundreds of dead seal pups on ...

Antarctica’s ice, ocean, and ecosystems are approaching tipping points that could trigger irreversible global impacts.

Animals in the oceans surrounding Antarctica are under increasing threat. Fishery management organisations and governments need to do more to eliminate illegal fishing and regulate better legal ...

Scientists have discovered sick and dead elephant seals on Heard Island and have collected samples for testing to confirm ...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) to cut seafloor image analysis from hours—or even years—to seconds, accelerating efforts to map Antarctica's ...

New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The ozone hole over Antarctica grows and closes up again each year – ...

It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica's pristine landscape is ...

In the frigid ocean surrounding Antarctica, the water boils over as seabirds dive from above and marine animals like seals ...

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold ...

If you were a marine animal that just sat and waited for food to drift by, you might not choose to live in a place where little life is believed to exist. Nonetheless, such critters have recently been ...