Awareness surrounding mercury pollution and its effects on both wildlife and humans is spreading. Recent studies suggest ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Rutgers' research reveals the widespread presence of mercury pollution in Earth’s polar regions. In 1962, environmentalist ...

It seems like it would be hard for penguins to tell each other apart when they’re nesting in huge colonies […] ...

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned "Silent Spring," alerting the world to the dangers of the ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

The new National Geographic miniseries Secrets of the Penguins visits the type of world Avatar filmmaker James Cameron is ...

For researchers, penguins are more than charismatic wildlife – they are living indicators of global pollution including that ...

Donald Trump's 10% tariff on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands sparked a viral meme wave, featuring penguins as ...

The penguins fluffed their tuxedo feathers, having travelled from the Florida Aquarium in Tampa to highlight the need for ...