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 ...

One of these terra incognita is the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Buried under kilometres of ice is a fascinating ...

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 ...

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.

However, data reinterpretation reveals it is in an unnamed canyon at 76.052°S, 118.378°E in Wilkes Land," the press release said. "The ice here is 4,757 m thick, or more than 15 times the height ...

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.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Adelie penguins in the Antarctic are shown in a photo from 2010. ... These penguins need dry land to breed, and they make nests out of rocks.

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 ...