Emperor penguins have been classified as endangered after satellite data revealed a rapid population decline driven by vanishing Antarctic sea ice, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

On the surface of the Antarctic ice, the emperor penguin is a study in endurance, huddling through blizzards and months of darkness to breed in the coldest conditions any bird faces. But its most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emperor penguins and the Antarctic fur seal were moved to the endangered species list by the international organization that ...

The satellites that first mapped emperor penguins could not see a single one of them. Landsat records the surface at 30 meters per pixel, and a four-foot bird disappears long before that. What those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The International Union for Conservation of Nature updated its Red List on Thursday, detailing the latest ...

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals are three of the more widely researched Southern Ocean predators. But there is still a lot we don't know, because of the remote ...

As a decades-long penguin lover, a (perhaps futile) comfort I took despite climate change was that penguins weren’t outright endangered, save for a few species. But of course, with all things climate ...

The annual "catastrophic" molt of the emperor penguin makes the birds especially vulnerable to climate change. Peter Fretwell / British Antarctic Survey Emperor penguins are uniquely adapted to life ...

Emperor penguins just slid into a new, unwelcome category: endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature on Thursday downgraded the status of the iconic Antarctic species in an update ...

Emperor penguins shed all their feathers once a year, a precarious ritual that may have become deadly as climate change pushes them into shrinking patches of Antarctic sea ice, researchers said ...

Zavodovski Island, a remote, uninhabited volcanic island between South America and Antarctica, lost 63 percent of its ...

Learn how the IUCN added emperor penguins to the Red List as climate change drives sea ice loss and could cut their population in half by 2080. If you are anything like me, you’ve watched March of the ...