An epic journey spanning thousands of kilometers from Indonesia deep into sub-Antarctic waters by two Australian pygmy blue whales has been tracked by researchers for the first time, confirming a long ...
CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after ...
CANBERRA/SYDNEY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have found hundreds of dead seal pups on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic with signs that suggest they were killed by a destructive bird flu ...
A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, ...
Almost a quarter of the glaciers in one of the world's last pristine ecosystems have melted from climate change, according to new research from Monash University. The finding has scientists ...
CANBERRA, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government said on Friday it will evacuate scientists from a sub-Antarctic island due to the "psychosocial risk" of a potential H5N1 avian influenza ...
Sub-Antarctic ecosystems, characterised by high levels of endemism and fragile food webs, are experiencing rapid transformations under contemporary climate warming. Rising air and sea temperatures ...