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Greg Mortimer, who was one of the first Australians to climb Everest, has spoken out about the amount of people climbing it.

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Travel to the end of the earth—as Ushuaia, Argentina, is called. Then travel beyond it, to the islands, coves and research ...

From loose-boweled whales in Tonga to the deafening call of the Weddell seal, Kiwi cameraman Andrew Penniket has had plenty ...

Imagine a cruise, and chances are you’re picturing a gleaming white ocean liner, overflowing with pools, theatres and bars, cutting across the open seas towards a destination that is, at the very ...

Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

The photo was captured by Roie Galitz when he ventured on a trip to Svalbard, about 82 degrees north in the Arctic.

Researchers identified two ecologically distinct communities of transient killer whales along the West Coast, each with unique hunting behaviors, habitats, and social networks.