The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.

The deadly H5N1 strain is spreading rapidly in the Antarctic, potentially threatening the world’s largest breeding population ...

Avian flu has wreaked havoc in other parts of the world. According to the World Organization for Animal Health, the United ...

"The great advantage of Antarctica is that one never gets ill," said Robert Scott. A lot can change in 100 years, and H5N1 is ...

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...

Adélie penguins are only found in the Antarctic and are the smallest species ... followed by the gull-like south polar skua.

Working alongside the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) and the British Antarctic Survey ... after the deaths of several brown skua. Sequence analysis from infected ...

On March 1, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent of 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles), tying for second lowest extent with 2022 and 2024 in the 47-year satellite ...

Affected species include brown skuas, Adélie penguins, snowy sheathbills, and Antarctic fur seals ... and samples were collected from a skua carcass on Torgersen Island in the Palmer Archipelago.

March 4 (UPI) --The oldest and largest iceberg on Earth landed on a sub-Antarctic island belonging to Britain Tuesday. According to the British Antarctic Survey research organization, the mass ...