Last year, scientists were faced with a dreaded event when the presence of H5N1, also known as bird flu, was detected in the Antarctic. Recently, a king penguin on South Georgia Island was possibly the first in the area to succumb to the illness. Phoebe Weston, a biodiversity reporter for The Guardian, speaks to Ian Sample about concerns that the spread of bird flu among penguin colonies in the Antarctic could result in one of the biggest environmental catastrophes of our era.

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Source: theguardian.com