The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Amateur astrophotographer and full-time wildlife conservationist Tim Henderson captured a trio of breathtaking nebula scenes ...

Three different meteor showers are happening at the same time this month, giving skywatchers plenty of chances to spend their ...

The Southern Hemisphere’s eddy-driven jet (EDJ), a critical force shaping weather patterns across South America, Southern ...

Scientists have traced the shifting and strengthening Southern jet stream to global warming and other major climate drivers.

The Southern Hemisphere has a stronger jet stream and more intense weather events. Ideas had been circulated, but no one had established a definitive explanation for this asymmetry.

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

Researchers say they now know why the Southern Hemisphere is so much stormier than its northern counterpart, adding their discovery could help explain future climate change projections. A study in ...

Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites. By Anthony Ham In 1996, paleontologists made a startling ...