The discovery of these penguin colonies might sound like good news, but the joy won't last long as climate change surges.

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

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 ...

And it won’t just be that colony. My colleagues and I in 2012 looked at all known emperor penguin colonies identified in images from space and determined that every colony will be declining by ...

Existing emperor penguin colonies and their average population sizes from 2009 to 2018. The colonieshighlighted in red represent those with available population size estimates. Colonies marked in ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

They inspire me. Of the 18 different species of penguin, only two (the emperor and Adélie) are actually true Antarctic residents. Breeding colonies of emperor penguins are found around the coast of ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has documented the existence of 61 Emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica, increasing the known number of colonies in the region by 20 percent. The findings, ...

As sea ice disappears or breaks up earlier in the year, entire emperor penguin colonies are declining or vanishing in parts of Antarctica. Melting sea ice, ocean acidification and industrial fisheries ...

The Biodiversity Law Centre, which represents the groups, said the number of penguins had dwindled from 15,000 in 2018 to ...

Climate scientists “expected” to see these penguins “suffer” as sea ice receded, but this loss “has accumulated faster than predicted”. What happened to the colonies in 2022?

Emperor penguins breed on sea-ice platforms ... penguins take thousands of tiny naps a day Fourteen of 66 penguin colonies, which can each produce several hundred to several thousand chicks ...