The Red List of Threatened Species, which was updated by the IUCN on Thursday, now includes the Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal on its endangered list. The IUCN is the world’s largest environmental network and provides scientific, data-driven expertise on biodiversity conservation.

An international wildlife group put the emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal on its "red list" of endangered species.

Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside many animals' guts and in nearly all of the world's environments, from hot, geothermal vents to the cold glaciers of Antarctica. Researchers have now shown that gut ...

The effects of the warming of the Earth’s climate on Antarctic lakes and seas is a matter of life or death for many plants and animals at the frozen continent. Professor Lloyd Peck, biologist with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discusses the prospects ...

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Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment (Oxford University Press, 2019). 06.03.2025 Antarctica ...