Anyone who has tried getting out of the water wearing SCUBA gear–and hated it–is going to like Weeb Enterprises’ Penguin Ice Ladder. Designed and built by Chris Smith a firefighter/EMT from Indiana ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

All but one of five known breeding sites for emperor penguins in a part of Antarctica experienced a “total breeding failure” during the 2022 season because of the loss of sea ice, according to a study ...

Researchers looked at satellite photos and saw that several colonies of emperor penguins suffered loss due to early sea ice loss. Reading time 3 minutes Thousands of penguin chicks in four emperor ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice ...

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their lives the birds are defenseless gray fluffballs, seeking warmth at their parents ...

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. Four ...

Researchers have been surprised to find that Adélie penguins in Antarctica prefer reduced sea-ice conditions, not just a little bit, but a lot. As climate models project rapid reduction of the ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put. The existence of emperor penguins ...

The concept of a canary in a coal mine – a sensitive species that provides an alert to danger – originated with British miners, who carried actual canaries underground through the mid-1980s to detect ...

Stephanie Jenouvrier receives funding from National Science Foundation, Grant/ Award Number: OPP 1744794; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant/Award Number: 80NSSC20K1289. Emperor ...

Dana M Bergstrom is affiliated with the Pure Antarctic Foundation, a group of scientists and artists interested in communicating science and knowledge to the broader community. When winter comes to ...