In the U.S., bird flu headlines have focused on an unprecedented number of American cases and the impact of the virus on dairy cows and on poultry ...

Expedition Killer Whale" reveals an hour-long lesson where adult orca teach calves how to hunt seals off Antarctica.

The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

Shackleton’s Emperors,” an 18-day voyage to see the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island. The special voyage also ...

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine species they’ve studied so; new results show transfer from mother seals ...

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...