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

Penguins may seem cute to us, but they're excellent predators and very efficient foragers. Adélies have a feisty attitude too. They’ve been known to take on potential predators – seals or large ...

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

Adélie penguins live on the Antarctic continent ... They take turns sitting on a pair of eggs to keep them warm and safe from predators. When food is short, only one of the two chicks may survive.

wanted to know if krill also do this in response to odors from predators. The authors focused on Adélies, the most southernly breeding species of penguin, as 99.6% of their diet consists of Antarctic ...

Millions more Adélie penguins may be marching across Antarctica than earlier counts suggested. Nearly six million of the tuxedoed penguins may live in East Antarctica, more than double the ...