Scientists are concerned after confirming the first-ever known cases of the bird flu in the Antarctic region, a discovery that illustrates the sweeping impact of the virus that has killed hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two brown skua birds, brown gull type birds, with sharp beaks and webbed feet, stand on green and brown cliffs on Bird Island, ...

It was only a matter of time, but highly pathogenic avian influence (HPAI) has officially found its way to bird populations in Antarctica, after dead migratory brown skua on Bird Island returned ...

A recent study revealed that the arrival of the deadly H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus has reached Antarctica. Scientists believe it arrived via migratory Antarctic skuas that travel from South America, where a ...

2023 has been a bad year for emperor penguins. In August, a study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that the loss of polar ice in Antarctica is likely to lead to a "catastrophic ...

Scientists recently confirmed that a variation of the avian influenza virus is responsible for sea bird deaths in Antarctica. Researchers from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and the University of ...