An American pilot was detained Saturday at Teniente Marsh airfield in Antarctica after landing without proper authorization, following an unreported change to his flight plan submitted prior to ...

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, but it is critically ...

There, in Antarctica’s Western Weddell Sea, researchers discovered more than 1,000 circular mounds of sand which had cleared ...

Australian scientists have detected signs consistent with H5 avian influenza in elephant seals on Heard Island, a remote ...

One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who study them.The North ...

A whopping 300 water canyons have been discovered by researchers across Antarctica - some reaching the depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet). All thanks to new high-resolution bathymetric data, ...

Researchers have sounded the alarm after recording Antarctica's third-lowest level of winter sea ice since satellite tracking began nearly 50 years ago, per Phys.org — another sign of how quickly our ...

Researchers documented the emergence of these methane seeps in shallow regions of the Ross Sea, a bay off the southern coast of Antarctica. The patches of leaking gas could be caused by global warming ...

Australia’s research icebreaker has scraped the ocean floor while mapping waters near a remote subantarctic island, forcing the crew to pause operations and check for damage. The RSV Nuyina struck the ...

A bioactive compound produced by the microorganism Bacillus licheniformis, found on Deception Island in Antarctica, has properties that qualify it for use in producing food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals ...