Atmospheric rivers act like "rivers in the sky," shuttling intense bands of warm, heavy moisture from lower to higher ...

A humpback whale photographed in Brazil in September 2003 appeared again in September 2025 off eastern Australia, so far from ...

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) underpins the Southern Ocean food web, sustaining whales, seals, penguins and numerous fish species. Swarming behaviour and vast biomass drive primary productivity ...

A view of Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica, which is shrinking by 3 centimeters per day. A view of Shoesmith Glacier on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica, which is shrinking by 3 ...

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Today on CNN10: We are celebrating Earth Day with an entire lineup of stories highlighting both the vigor and vulnerability of our planet. We begin with a growing debate over krill trawling in our ...

Changes in geopolitics, technology, and the climate affect all parts of the world, with Antarctica being no exception. However, as the only continent without any Indigenous people or permanent ...

Now, only 124 years since this penguin colony was discovered, emperor penguins have officially been listed as endangered, along with the Antarctic fur seal. As the world warms, Antarctic krill are ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition ...

While not the largest in terms of numbers, the Arctic Tern deserves mention for undertaking the longest migration of any animal on Earth. These small seabirds travel from their Arctic breeding grounds ...

Antarctica’s iconic emperor penguin has been deemed an endangered species as the sea ice it depends on shrinks because of rising temperatures. The penguins’ population is expected to drop by half by ...

Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal, a new assessment finds. The new listings, published Wednesday by ...