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Gray seals may sense their own blood oxygen levels
The seals’ ability to detect the amount of oxygen in their blood may help them make diving decisions and avoid drowning.
Southern elephant seals are adaptable—but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes ...
New Zealand once home to southern elephant seals
Southern elephant seals are the "canary in the coal mine" for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may ...
Daily Maverick on MSN1d
Marion Island’s seabirds at risk after avian flu confirmed on SA’s sub-Antarctic outpost
The deadly H5N1 strain is spreading rapidly in the Antarctic, potentially threatening the world’s largest breeding population ...
Rotorua Girls' High’s Zoe Parker returns from subantarctic islands voyage
The 16-year-old Rotorua Girls’ High School student is back from an expedition voyage to the subantarctic islands where she ...
Mongabay News2d
Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone
Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...
The Weekly Times4d
H5N1 bird flu moves closer to Australia, New Zealand
Australia has failed to undertake any testing of wildlife for the high pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 virus on its Heard and McDonald Island territories this summer, despite French researchers ...
Green Matters on MSN4d
Antarctica Has One Place Where Ships Can Sail Directly Into The Center of an Active Volcano
First look at the island may offer the picture of a dead caldera but a closer look reveals that the caldera actually holds a ...
World's largest iceberg bigger than London could now cause disaster for penguins
Several million penguins live in the area along with several species of albatross, elephant seals and fur seals, all of which ...
The waters once ran red with whale blood - now South Georgia is a conservation success story
South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...
Isle Of Wight Radio7d
Iceberg was a wildlife concern - but South Georgia is a conservation success story
a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, and former head of the South Georgia government, speaking to me from his office at King Edward Point on the island. The island also has some of the ...