That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

When Gabe Castro-Root, a senior in the School of Communication, was selected to join multiple prominent scientists, ...

A wildfire burning for weeks on Amsterdam Island, part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands, has so far destroyed 55 ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a – which recently broke free from a decades-long imprisonment in Antarctica – is currently ...

The expedition aimed to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent ... The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the crossing ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran, being published on February 14 as the cover story for Science, reports that seals can essentially act as “smart sensors” for ...