Oceanwide Expeditions has announced that the company is launching snorkeling as a new activity on sailings in Antarctica. The ...

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At Roger Williams Park Zoo, the penguins will eat 1 to 1½ pounds of fish daily over two or three feedings. They will be fed small herring, capelin, smelts, trout, minnows, sardines, anchovies and ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

Penguin poop is creating more clouds. Here’s how - Scientists say they’ve seen ammonia emitted from penguin poop result in ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

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This incident underscores a stark reality: Under some climate scenarios, scientists predict, 80 percent of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies will disappear by the turn of the century.

An emperor penguin has been discovered waddling on an Australian beach, about 3,500 kilometres from its Antarctic home, according to a statement from the Western Australian state’s government.