New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of emperor penguin colonies in East Antarctica, shows ...

Barbara Wienecke, a seabird researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division, explained that emperor penguins have ...

For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.

Already satellite imagery had revealed it was the site of a catastrophic emperor penguin breeding failure. The penguins, which need sea ice connected to land to breed and raise their chicks ...

It follows a “catastrophic breeding failure” in 2022, signalling long-term implications for the population, the study’s author Peter Fretwell said. Emperor penguins breed on sea-ice ...

Emperor penguins need reliable sea ice for breeding and raising their chicks. As sea ice disappears or breaks up earlier in the year, entire emperor penguin colonies are declining or vanishing in ...

Four new emperor penguin colonies have been identified in ... scientists believe they now know the whereabouts of all the world's remaining breeding pairs. It's vital information for ...

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 ...

The images in the app are drone photos taken over the Snow Hill colony of emperor penguins, an island to the east of the Antarctic peninsula, taken in November 2023. The breeding site, home to ...

and the population never fully recovered from massive breeding failures – something that has been occurring more frequently. To assess whether the emperor penguin could qualify for protection ...