The skippers in the Vendée Globe are not only sailing with the winds and currents, but also in the company of some ...

The Adélie is the littlest, and also the most widespread, species of penguin in the Antarctic. They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – ...

R.Herman/LSU/SBU Sea-ice is important to these birds because it is a recruitment habitat for krill Dr Hart commented: "On the West Antarctic Peninsula, Adelie and chinstrap penguins are declining ...

All but two Adelie penguin chicks have starved to death in their east Antarctic colony, in a breeding season described as "catastrophic" by experts. It was caused by unusually high amounts of ice ...

The group of nine rocky islands, which lie off the northern tip nearest South America, in the northwest Weddell Sea, housed the third- and fourth-largest Adelie penguin colonies in the world, ...

Microplastics have been discovered in the organs and gastrointestinal tissues of Adelie penguins in Antarctica, according to a study by CSIR-NIO Goa. Researchers found that the majority of plastic ...