Adélie penguins look harmless waddling up to a camera, but one peek inside their mouths reveals something far more unsettling lurking beneath that charming exterior.

Across Antarctica’s white sea ice, penguins are sometimes seen walking one behind another in long lines. The sight looks like ...

Climate change and shifts in the food web are continuing to threaten the survival and reproduction of penguins in Antarctica, a Chinese expert has warned. "The loss of sea ice has imposed breeding ...

Although it takes four days of sailing to get there, this trip feels closer thanks for the minimal flying time and lack of jet lag.

The spirit of waterborne discovery, by river or by sea, is fueled by a curiosity to explore less-visited lands. This ...

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

For most people, Antarctica is synonymous with ice. What makes this latest development so concerning is that it is happening during the Antarctic winter.Unlike the Arctic, where sea ice reaches its ...

A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...