Meanwhile, Adelie Land is named after Adele Dumont d’Urville. Adele was the wife of Jules Dumont d’Urville, a French explorer who discovered the first Adelie penguin in 1840. 9.

It’s more like ‘Tarantino does Happy Feet’, with dead penguin chicks strewn across a beach in Adélie Land. open image in gallery Adélie penguin chicks starved to death at Dumont d'Urville ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists studying a colony of more than 18,000 pairs of Adelie penguins in the French Antarctic territory, Adelie Land, discovered only two chicks had survived at the start of 2017. The rest of ...

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.