Four million breeding pairs of Adélie penguins live around Antarctica. (Photo: Michael Wenger) Initial results from an international expedition along the West Antarctic Peninsula reveal that Adélie penguins are unaffected carriers of avian flu. Adélie penguins...
Departing from Spain last autumn, the Hespéridesis moored in the small bay opposite the Juan Carlos I station. Image: Ocean Networks Canada To monitor the melting of the Antarctic and its effects on the balance of the Southern Ocean, a Spanish-Canadian association has...
Dr. Marco Falchieri, scientist at the Animal and Plant Health Agency, taking samples from a fur seal (left). The kelp gull is widespread in the sub-Antarctic islands and is one of the species affected by the avian influenza virus. Images: British Antarctic Survey /...
Collecting samples of the moss Sanionia uncinata on King George Island. (Photo: G. Kessler, Federal University of Pampa) The moss Sanionia uncinata could possibly serve as an indicator species for climate change in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. A team of...
Visible blow of pod of whales feeding on krill while a supertrawler fishes among them (Photo: Sea Shepherd Global / Flavio Gasperini). Differences have arisen within the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), apparently from...
