As the planet heats up and sea ice disappears more rapidly, these penguins find it challenging to huddle, mate and breed.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

DENMARK, Western Australia – A lone and malnourished emperor penguin, thousands of miles from its Antarctic home, was spotted waddling ashore earlier this month on a popular southern Australian ...

A large number of emperor penguin chicks were hit by the effects of climate change in 2023 as their icy homes were eroded despite the species’ endeavours to adjust to the shrinking landscape ...

By contrast, ‘Emperor Penguins’ need straight backs and movements ... A penguin ‘colony’ shuffles slowly, to keep warm from a blizzard (in three circles) then, as light relief, a penguin ...