Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

including South Georgia, Macquarie Island and the Falkland Islands. These colonies act as global strongholds for the species. Yet in the past, until just a few hundred years ago, many smaller ...

Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of ...

The Edinburgh-based firm, Christian Salvesen, operated whale processing ports at the aptly named Leith Harbour at Stromness ...

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article, "Is Antarctica Greening?" ...

Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island is named after the remains of a maritime forest; the weathered tree trunks, gnarled branches ...

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that the AI device will be relatively small, able to sit atop a desk or fit in a pocket, ...

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard ...

Researchers documented how cruise ship anchors can harm some of the oldest species of marine life in Antarctica.

Since James Cook claimed it for Britain in 1775, South Georgia has been rather mournful. By the time Ernest Shackleton washed up here on a small lifeboat in 1916 after escaping Antarctica when the ...