A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way among many that climate change is transforming life at the bottom of the ...

Antarctica’s iconic emperor penguin has been deemed an endangered species as the sea ice it depends on shrinks because of rising temperatures. The penguins’ population is expected to drop by half by ...

Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica in Japan.

Scientists mapping satellite images of Antarctica stumbled on a grim discovery: Emperor penguins are disappearing as the ice they depend on during their most vulnerable transition vanishes. Each ...

Amanda Barry, from the Highlands, is a member of the team on the three-year Antarctica mission.

Antarctica is one of the fastest-warming regions in the world and annual average temperatures there reached record highs last year. Gentoo penguins demonstrated the greatest change with the timing of ...

Ten of thousands of penguins, clustered together on the Antarctic Peninsula, can produce some potent stenches. Now, scientists have found that all that waste could be powerful enough to cool the ...

A new study shows penguins are breeding earlier than ever in the Antarctic Peninsula. This region is one of the fastest-warming areas of the world... Warming temperatures could change penguin breeding ...