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 ...

CCAMLR member states fail to implement protection for wildlife and establish a new marine protected area (MPA) in East Antarctica. In a blow for biodiversity in East Antarctica, the member states of ...

STORY: The icy waters off Antarctica are estimated to hold up to 550 million tons of krill. These tiny shrimp-like creatures are the linchpin in the Antarctic food web, sustaining a huge number of ...

In many of our previous blog posts we have written about the main subjects of our experiment, three wonderful amphipod species Prostebbingia gracilis, Gondogeneia antarctica, and Djerboa furcipes. For ...

Antarctica's isolated population of wildlife faces an unprecedented threat: avian flu. The lethal variant of avian flu, H5N1, has made its way to populations of brown skuas on Bird Island, part of the ...

H5N1 bird flu in Antarctic wildlife showing how climate change shifts animal ranges and highlights urgent need for monitoring ...

Photographer Paul Goldstein spent time with a colony of Emperor penguins while guiding in the Antarctic this month.

Antarctic whales, seals and penguins could be threatened by food shortages in the Southern Ocean. Numbers of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a shrimp-like crustacean at the heart of the food ...

Very few places on Earth feel truly untouched. Antarctica is one of them.It’s the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, ...

Javier Bardem and David Harbor join the fight to protect the Antarctic. —London -- Javier Bardem was watching a group of penguins on an icy slope meters away from the freezing waters of the ...

Ice-free areas in Antarctica could expand by close to 25% by 2100 and drastically change the animal and plant life of the continent, research published Wednesday shows. The new study also looks at the ...