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

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

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

Jet streams are often referred to as the "motor" of global weather: High-altitude wind currents steer areas of high and low ...

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 "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

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 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 ...