One has to sympathize with the writer-artist team of Ferri and Conrad, taking on the daunting task of creating new adventures ...

Every winter, emperor penguin fathers face one of the greatest survival challenges in nature. For nearly two months, they ...

An Emperor Penguin stands calmly on the vast Antarctic ice, surrounded by one of the most extreme environments on Earth. As the largest penguin species in the world, Emperor Penguins are uniquely ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to its Red List of endangered ...

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Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica opening in Japan on Tuesday. Officials from the nearly 60 countries ...

The Penguins are a team deep in transition. Despite surpassing all external expectations this season, they have to improve in many ways before they can legitimately compete for the Stanley Cup.

Susan Rigetti is author of three books and a former editor at The New York Times and Slate. She is a contributing Globe Opinion writer. Emperor penguins have existed in Antarctica for more than 40 ...

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot ...

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 ...

Antarctica’s iconic emperor penguin has been deemed an endangered species as the sea ice it depends on shrinks because of rising temperatures. The penguins’ population is expected to drop by half by ...