The territory is home to precious colonies of King Emperor penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals. "South Georgia ...

Hundreds of baby emperor penguins have miraculously survived after a breakaway iceberg caused thousands of chicks to be cut off from their mothers. An Antarctic ice shelf as big as the Isle of ...

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 ...

Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species ... for them to try as a giant iceberg is about to disrupt the site. The dramatic loss of the young emperor birds has been reported ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape ...

Iceberg-shapes are created with tall ... for underwater swimming like seals. By contrast, ‘Emperor Penguins’ need straight backs and movements for swaying, leaning, scurrying, waddling ...

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 ...

He fears the iceberg is blocking a vast area of ocean that is an important feeding ground one of the world's largest colonies of macaroni penguins. Ecologist Mark Belchier who advises the South ...