As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins. Four ...

Around 10,000 penguin chicks died after an ice bed they lived on broke apart, the BBC said. The emperor penguin chicks, who had not yet developed waterproof feathers, died last October. More than 90% ...

As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins. Four ...

Thousands of emperor penguins in western Antarctica lost their chicks last year, largely due to receding sea ice, satellite data suggest. Emperor penguins rely on stable sea ice throughout their ...

Record sea ice loss caused a mass die-off of emperor penguin chicks in part of Antarctica last year, bolstering predictions that the world’s largest penguin will soon be in danger of extinction.

Disappearing sea ice is taking a toll on the youngest members of the largest species of penguins, new research finds. Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are born into the darkness of Antarctica’s ...

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their lives the birds are defenseless gray fluffballs, seeking warmth at their parents ...

CLIMATEWIRE | MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, Richard Gadbois, 80, did what he had done countless times on freezing January days in northern Minnesota. He drove his SUV onto ice-covered Mille Lacs Lake — one ...

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