The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change​ pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife says.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has reclassified both the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal as ...

The world's largest penguin species is endangered due to climate change, reports the International Union for Conservation of ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition ...

It's world is sadly melting away!

Susan Rigetti is author of three books and a former editor at The New York Times and Slate. She is a contributing Globe ...

Recently, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed both the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal as endangered. This article explains how this topic ties into the bigger issue of the ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change ...

"Penguins are already among the most threatened birds on Earth," Martin Harper, CEO of BirdLife International, said. "The emperor penguin’s move to endangered is a stark warning that climate change is ...

Growing up, emperor penguins were probably one of your favorite animals—the cute, waddling birds always looked somewhat magical against the endless white of Antarctica. But the heartbreaking reality ...

Since 2016, sea ice levels have dramatically declined. Thousands of chicks have frozen or drowned, the wildlife fund said.

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals are three of the more widely researched Southern Ocean predators. But there is still a lot we don't know, because of the remote ...