Antarctica’s most iconic species just crossed a threshold that scientists have been warning about for years - and the timeline for action is shrinking fast. Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

From penguins that fly in the sky to penguins that live in the forestWhen you hear the word penguin, what kind of image comes ...

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 ...

Each year for millennia, emperor penguins have molted on coastal sea ice that remained stable until late summer—a haven during a span of several weeks when it’s dangerous for the mostly aquatic birds ...

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 ...

Scientists just recognized a penguin species that had been hiding in plain sight for hundreds of thousands of years, and the ...

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 ...