UPDATE: Professor Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), provided us with exciting background information on the emperor penguin colony in Atka Bay. He told Polar Journal in a phone call that the ice thickness of the Ekström ice shelf...
An emperor penguin colony near the ice edge photographed during an aerial survey. Photo: Sara Labrousse High-resolution satellite images enabled an international research team to document the global population development of emperor penguins for the first time:...
Climate change is already having a dramatic impact on some emperor penguin colonies. Last breeding season, in the Bellingshausen Sea, where sea ice broke up before the chicks could develop their waterproof plumage, four colonies suffered total brood failure. (Photo:...
Emperor penguins breed on ice surfaces near the coastal areas of Antarctica (here Snow Hill Island), on fast ice or perennial sea ice. But in recent years, this space has become smaller and smaller, as no ice had formed or it had broken up again very early. Too early...
This article is published as part of a partnership between PolarJournal and Quark Expeditions. A wild-and-crazy godmother (Photo: Quark Expeditions) The cruise operator has chosen a tireless advocate for inclusivity and capability as well as an expert in geoscience to...
