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

Belinda Cannell, a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, explained that emperor penguins have previously ...

Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild ... But he didn’t know what the bubbles did for the penguins. It turns out no one else knew either. The two men combed the scientific ...

Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shooting Stars Capturing the flight of emperor penguins in Antarctica is no easy feat. They rocket around underwater ...

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 ...