Category : The Biological World

What lives in the ocean? That’s the central question of an international project to inventory species diversity and distribution in key marine ecosystems around the...

Scientists trolling the shallow waters near Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula found significantly higher krill biomass density in coastal areas than in deeper, offshore...

A research team headed by polar veterans Paul Dayton and John Oliver are going to Antarctica to search out historical experiments left in McMurdo Sound...

For the past 42 years, a research team has gone to Erebus Bay in Antarctica to gather new population data on Weddell seals, representing one...

Why do Adélie penguins forage in the locations that they do? Scientists working in the Antarctic Peninsula plan to find out by following the seabirds...

The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on the planet. Now scientists believe at least one species of king crab is slowly...

In a region famously isolated from the rest of the planet, there are plenty of hard-to-reach places in the Antarctic, such as crevassed and thinning...

Ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns have helped keep most of Antarctica from warming up with the rest of the planet. But the continent’s isolation hasn’t...

For 15 years, U.S. researchers in Antarctica have watched the ebb and flow of Adélie penguin colony populations around the Ross Sea. Now they are...