Researchers found mercury levels are higher in the Okefenokee than other gator hotspots in the Southeast. How they sampled ...

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard seals have eaten in the past few years. Both nitrogen and carbon ...

“I’ve been coming here since 2014 – South Georgia just draws me back,” SGHT’s island director, Deirdre Mitchell, tells me. She spends six months on the island each season.

Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited. Only a few visiting scientists and government fisheries inspectors occupy the island ...

The gentoo penguin is featured on the second coin in the 2020 50-penny Penguin Series for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from the Pobjoy Mint. The coin’s release follows the recent ...

The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground off the coast of a remote British island home to millions of penguins and seals — potentially threatening local wildlife, but also ...

A23a started to drift up through the Southern Ocean in 2020, when currents put it on a possible collision course with South Georgia. The iceberg and the island are about the same size in square miles.

The so-called A23a iceberg, the world's largest, has run aground in South Georgia after almost 40 years at sea, threatening important penguin colonies.

The world’s largest iceberg, A-23A, is seen drifting toward the island of South Georgia on Feb. 6, as captured by NASA's Terra satellite. The island is the narrow strip of land just above and to ...

Science News: The 'world's biggest iceberg', "A23a iceberg", which is more than twice the size of London, is drifting toward South Georgia Island, raising concerns .

South Georgia’s icy shores have faced such threats before. In 2004, the massive iceberg A38 grounded on the island’s continental shelf, blocking access to feeding grounds and leaving countless ...