With location regulations no longer in force, fishing boats are harvesting thousands of tons of krill from very few areas, increasing competition with penguins, seals, whales and other marine life.
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A deadly strain of bird flu is circulating in animals. So far the virus has been detected in seabirds on islands near Antarctica. What does this mean for wildlife, tourism and research?
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next.
Whales are rediscovering their old haunts in the Arctic and Southern oceans after centuries of hunting.
On one of the world’s most remote islands, a species of duck has learned to scavenge on dead seals.
Cooperation or theft? New observations show wild leopard seals sharing food when targeting king penguins in Antarctica.
The drama and somewhat unintentional humour of first one and eventually three ships getting caught in heavy sea ice in the Southern Ocean has been closely followed since before Christmas. The images of…
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