Meijers said there's less of a concern about the effects A23a could have on South Georgia's seals and penguins, although huge chunks of ice in the island's vicinity could possibly thwart their ...

When the ozone hole forms, more ultraviolet rays get through the atmosphere. And while penguins and seals have ... Marine life is protected by sea ice cover and Antarctica's moss forests are ...

Too little ice, however, reduces places to hide from predators, and decreases amounts of food sources such as krill, the tiny shrimp-like creatures that sustain penguins. Biologist Hal Caswell from ...

The hole goes right through the 10-foot ... Aptenodytes Forsteri (penguins) A hundred feet below the ice, a feather star waves its frondlike arms, groping for food particles.

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 ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted the emperor penguin protection under the Endangered Species Act because of threats from sea-ice loss driven by the climate crisis. The ...

The penguins breed on fast ice, which is sea ice attached to land ... Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Marine Ecologist Philip Trathan of the British Antarctic Survey ...