When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

If you ever find yourself hanging out on Antarctica's Danger Islands, we hope you like penguins. There's a lot of them there.More than 1.5 million of the birds were found in 2015 during a survey of ...

Testing has confirmed the presence of the H5 high pathogenicity avian influenza (H5 bird flu) in samples collected from southern elephant seals on ...

Art Wolfe crosses the infamous Drake Passage south of Cape Horn. It is spring on the Antarctic Peninsula and the frozen wilderness is a veritable nursery for penguins, shore birds and seal pups. In ...

Antarctica is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, yet no one owns it. But that doesn’t mean it’s free for the taking. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty forbids claiming land there, but 7 ...

The Falkland Islands sit far north of the Antarctic Peninsula, yet they’re a key part of many Antarctic expeditions. These windswept islands burst with life, and here you can spot colonies of king ...

A remote Australian territory, the islands do not have any permanent human residents. They do, however, have millions of penguins, seals, and other Antarctic wildlife. When President Donald Trump ...

Three years ago, Eric Pōmaika‘i Gee was a student at the Big Island’s Kealakehe High School when he invited polar explorer ...

We also show how sea-level rise from Antarctica varies around the world. In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the ...

Testing has confirmed a deadly strain of bird flu has reached an Australian sub-Antarctic island, after scientists raised the ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated reciprocal tariffs in Australia. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" unleashed widespread tariffs in a "declaration of economic ...