Animals that are higher up the food chain, such as penguins, are especially vulnerable to changes in the environment.

Longer summers are allowing more king penguin chicks to bulk up and survive the winter, but the penguins' main fishing area is shifting further away as temperatures rise ...

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of US data showed Wednesday, as climate change shrinks the region's frozen cover ...

Generally, birds are known to be graceful, fast, and capable of soaring over the vast expanse of the sky. However, the most interesting and fascinating birds in the world are known to be large and not ...

The tall black-and-white residents of Antarctica, who waddle around its icy landscape, are in peril thanks to the rapidly ...

A chance discovery by British Antarctic Survey scientists has revealed a troubling threat to the survival of emperor penguins. The Madingley-based researchers were examining satellite images when they ...

Emperor penguins are icons of the penguin world. They are only found in the wild in Antarctica and breed and raise their babies on the ice. Because the Antarctic is so massive and difficult to explore ...

By slowing their metabolism, storing fat, or entering dormancy, these animals can easily spend this time without eating.

"It's incredibly energy-intensive and the birds use up to 50% of their body mass," he says. It is "probably the most ...

The emperor penguins of Antarctica are threatened by a loss of sea ice which is retreating because of climate change according to British scientists.They say they stumbled over the evidence while ...