Adelie penguins at a rookery. NOAA NESDIS ORA ... But because Adélie penguins only nest on land not covered by snow or ice, their population has actually increased in recent years.

Penguin population plummeting in changing Antarctic climate 02:30. BERLIN -- Almost the entire cohort of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic was wiped out by starvation ...

Ropert-Coudert, who leads the study of seabirds at the Dumont D’Urville Antarctic research station, said the Adelie colony there numbers about 18,000 pairs who have been monitored since the 1960s.

A penguin colony in Antarctica has suffered a massive breeding failure, with only two chicks surviving the disaster. Terre Adélie (Adélie Land) is home to more than 18,000 pairs of Adélie ...

Adelie penguin with its pup and the Bellingshausen Station in Antarctica. ... It's more like 'Tarantino does Happy Feet,' with dead penguin chicks strewn across a beach in Adélie Land." ...

A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.

A colony of over 18,000 pairs of Adélie penguins in Terre Adélie, Antarctica, suffered a catastrophic breeding failure at the start of 2017 with only two chicks surviving. WWF is demanding greater ...

Liam Quinn/Wikimedia Commons. A coastal stretch of East Antarctica was littered with the bodies of dead Adélie penguin chicks after a “catastrophic” breeding season saw all but two of the ...

Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals. For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur. For their land-bound cousins, like the ...