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.

They seemingly find it easier to slide along on their bellies ... to adapt to the harsh arctic climate. Emperor penguins ...

GLAND, Switzerland— A study published this week finds that emperor penguins are being pushed towards extinction by the climate crisis melting the sea ice they need for survival. Yet the Trump ...

A 6-year assessment of low sea-ice impacts on emperor penguins by Fretwell, P. is published in Antarctic Science. Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Emperor penguins establish their colonies on sea ice under extremely specific conditions. Yet, this ice will gradually melt as the climate warms, depriving these birds of their habitat ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...