ANTARCTICA (WJW) – The emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal are now considered endangered, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species announced. The organization changed the emperor penguin’s ...

Now, only 124 years since this penguin colony was discovered, emperor penguins have officially been listed as endangered, along with the Antarctic fur seal. As the world warms, Antarctic krill are ...

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) with chicks on the sea ice at Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The ...

Climate change is threatening emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals, with both species that live on Earth’s southernmost continent now listed as endangered. With sea ice levels dropping because of ...

The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica, which is posing an existential threat to wildlife with ...

Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal, a new assessment finds. The new listings, published Wednesday by ...

WASHINGTON — Two iconic polar species — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal — could be moving toward extinction, according to a new assessment from an international organization. The ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition ...

(NEW YORK) -- The status of several threatened species has been downgraded to endangered, and climate change is to blame, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Red List ...