A well-nourished polar bear in the Chukchi Sea region in summer looks like a good sign. Yet, the king of the Arctic is increasingly impacted by viruses, bacteria and parasites as a new study shows. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The Polar Retrospective looks back at events...
Southern elephant seals crowd the beaches of South Georgia in their thousands, amidst penguins and with numerous seabirds as neighbors. However, this also brings them into quicker contact with the globally rampant HPAI H5N1 virus, which is now raging among seals....
