Category : The Biological World

More than three decades after much of the world banned or restricted its use, the pesticide known as DDT is still showing up at consistent...

Diminishing sea ice. Declining krill populations. Increasing snowfall and rain. Now it appears even ticks are harassing Adélie penguins along the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula....

Antarctic icefish would seem to serve as odd specimens for study, a family of fish endemic to the Southern Ocean that probably couldn’t survive anywhere...

There’s an old saying: You are what you eat. But the krill-based diet of penguins breeding and living on King George Island off the northern...

Mike Goebel uses high- and low-tech methods to find what Antarctic fur seals had for dinner. The interest in diet isn’t simply for curiosity’s sake....

Hundreds of meters below the sea ice sits the continental shelf, home to a unique marine menagerie. How this community will respond to climate change...

Just what does a humpback whale in the Southern Ocean do all day? Well, eat, that’s for certain. A lot. But how much? It’s a...

A cold, dark and oxygen-poor reservoir of water chemically similar to seawater seems an unlikely place to find a functioning ecosystem, particularly one trapped under...

A robot that may one day explore distant worlds made its first successful foray into an ice-covered lake in Antarctica last year....

It seemed unlikely too many marine organisms could make a living under the dark shadow of an ice shelf, with the ice some 200 meters...