chick mortality at the colony. Current predictions suggest that in scenarios in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current levels, the population of emperor penguins will fall by ...

In an unprecedented sighting, an emperor penguin, typically found in the icy regions of Antarctica, was spotted on Ocean Beach in Denmark, Western Australia—over 3,500 kilometres from its usual ...

This new colony makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, with exactly half having been discovered by satellite imagery. Current Edition Topics ...

Emperor penguins inhabit the compacted ice along the coast of Antarctica with some colonies ... Males and females feed the ...

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 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 ...

Using satellites, scientists estimated the population of emperor penguins in Antarctica and found their numbers in the icy continent were nearly twice as large as previous estimates, a new study ...

Of the 18 different species of penguin, only two (the Emperor and Adélie) are actually true Antarctic residents. The Adélie lives on or close to sea ice all its life, but only breeds on ice-free land ...

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 ...

Diane Louise Jordan has three sessions inspired by the climate and wildlife of Antarctica ... today start with icebergs and move on to Emperor penguins. An adventure to the bottom of the world ...

But emperor penguins need ... like creatures that sustain penguins. Biologist Hal Caswell from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and his colleagues combined climate models to ...