A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds ...

On Tuesday 21 June researchers and operational staff at BAS’ King Edward Point, Bird Island and Rothera Research Station took part in a decades old tradition to mark the Antarctic Winter Solstice.

In a media release on November 20, the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population) adding that the ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a ...

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

There are just eight among the seals and penguins of King Edward Point on South Georgia and only four at nearby Bird Island. The biggest base, Rothera, on the Antarctic Peninsula houses 19 ...

Then the smell hits, a choking reek of fish and ammonia from the birds ... on Possession Island—a wet, wind-blasted speck in the Crozet archipelago some 1,400 miles north of Antarctica ...

Kerguelen Island is about 440km from Australia's ... included potential spread from seabirds if the virus took over Antarctica. Bird flu arrived in the west of Antarctica early last year but ...