Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its ...

Researchers in Sweden and Denmark have for the first time managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from the ...

Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. The remote island in the South Atlantic ...

Cruising high over a remote sub-Antarctic island, drones have captured a situation unfolding that has scientists alarmed. The ...

Tuna are one of the ocean’s most important commercial fish, providing food for millions of people. Once endangered from overfishing, this species has been helped by sustainable fishing quotas.

The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the ...

Elephants are not only extremely intelligent but have the ability to express deep empathy for others. They form close family ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s ...

New research reveals 47% decline in breeding female elephant seals at sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia following a ...