One of Earth’s most untouched ecosystems is now showing signs of major distress. Nearly a quarter of the glaciers on Heard Island, a remote sub-Antarctic territory of Australia, have melted. This is a ...

Among the barrage of tariffs announced by U.S. president Donald Trump on Wednesday were those imposed (bafflingly to many) on a collection of remote, pristine and storm-battered islands with no human ...

Penguins stand on the shores of Corinthian Bay in the Australian territory of Heard Island, one of the targets of the Trump administration's sweeping set of tariffs. On Wednesday, President Trump ...