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

The discovery of these penguin colonies might sound like good news, but the joy won't last long as climate change surges.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

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 ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice in late 2023 resulted in breeding failures in a fifth of the continent’s emperor penguin colonies, according to a new study from the British Antarctic ...

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 ...

Emperors are the tallest and heaviest of the penguin species and need reliable patches of sea-ice on which to breed Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were ...