Because Antarctica wildlife is protected against harm, passengers were repeatedly told to keep at least 5 meters (almost 16 feet) away from the penguins and their "highways" - the narrow paths ...

ANTARCTICA — It’s 10:30 a.m. on Danco Island, and it’s clearly time for the penguins to make the daily trek to the icy water. As they waddle down the snow-covered mountain, a group of ...

BASE BROWN, Antarctica – Icy water is soaking my backside, my hands are freezing and the waves are breaking over our kayak’s bow and I’m starting to consider the wisdom of what we’re doing.

Rain in Antarctica makes the entire planet hotter. NASA satellites have tracked how rain replaces snow and ice with vegetation and found that since the late 1980’s, there are 14 times more ...

The penguins, though, weren't only at the Errera landing site. They could also be seen swimming through the water in the style of porpoises, a technique that I've come to learn is in fact known as ...

It took CBS News' Roxana Saberi 3 days to reach Elephant Island, on the Antarctic Peninsula, where scientists say declining penguin populations offer a warning to us all.

Quark Expeditions took the first commercial passengers to the North Pole in 1991 and followed that up with the first passenger voyage to the Far Side of Antarctica in 1992. In 1996, it began a ...

Like numerous other species, penguins are being affected by climate change. But because Adélie penguins only nest on land not covered by snow or ice, their population has actually increased in ...