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 ...

The biggest threat to them right now is climate change due to changes in the sea ice they depend on. For me, emperor penguins are the iconic Antarctic species. When I first saw them on the ice, I was ...

Your article on scientific advances helping to increase knowledge of emperor penguins in Antarctica was fascinating. However, there are other problems apart from climate change affecting these and ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

The emperor penguin was malnourished ... The penguin was “removed from the beach to avoid potential threats from dogs, cats, ...

4, 2021, starting a 60-day public comment period. The greatest threat emperor penguins face is climate change. It will disrupt the sea ice cover they rely on unless governments adopt policies that ...

Emperor penguins breed on sea-ice platforms ... gas emissions that are contributing to ice melt to mitigate the main threat facing the species. Both 2022 and 2023 were the first years to see ...

Like the polar bear on the opposite pole, the emperor penguin endures almost unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter ...

Evolution Fossil records indicate that emperor penguins’ earliest common ancestor lived as long as 60 million years ago — ...

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 ...