Emperor penguin chicks face a tough challenge at just six months old. Their parents leave them to fend for themselves, and the young penguins must find their way to the ocean and learn to swim. After ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Emperor penguin chicks is walking on the fast ice at the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants are falling out of sync with each other. Ecosystems are fraying. Coral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emperor Penguins in a snow storm in Antarctica.© Ian Duffy from UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Emperor penguins survive ...

As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins. Four ...

Emperor penguins usually return to the same areas of sea ice to breed and raise their chicks. This ice melts and reforms seasonally, but due to climate change, there are considerably fewer floating ...