Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

An unprecedented loss of Antarctic sea ice prevented four colonies of emperor penguins from seeing any chicks survive in 2022, scientists report in a new study.

As global temperatures rise, Arctic birds are breeding earlier than they did in previous decades. However, the reverse is true in Antarctica, new research shows. “In the Arctic, spring basically ...

In the 1980s, paleontologists at the University of California Riverside visited Seymour Island, part of an island chain in the Antarctic Peninsula. They brought home a number of fossils ...

Antarctic birds returning to a nesting colony after feeding at sea sniff out their mates, literally. Researchers studying the behavior of birds called Antarctic prions found the musky-smelling ...

Antarctica’s rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent.

Antarctic sea ice may be a source of mercury in southern ocean fish and birds. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 08 / 160801113831.htm ...

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.

The Antarctic region provides critical breeding territory for more than 100 million birds as well as seals, sea lions and other marine mammals.

As of 2009, the emperor penguin population was estimated at just shy of 600,000 birds. ... As Antarctic sea ice shrinks, iconic emperor penguins are in more peril than previously thought.