From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.

and causing ice shelves to collapse. These penguins are also threatened by industrial fisheries and ocean acidification, which further reduce prey availability. Determined to keep global warming from ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... that can gun past a leopard seal and launch over a wall of sea ice. That’s still proprietary technology.

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”. “Abrupt reductions” in sea ice that persisted ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

The study by the British Antarctic Survey found that record-low sea ice levels in 2023 contributed to the second-worst year for emperor penguin chick mortality since observations began in 2018.

and causing ice shelves to collapse. These penguins are also threatened by industrial fisheries and ocean acidification, which further reduce prey availability. Determined to keep global warming from ...