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The year 2022 witnessed a devastating blow to emperor penguin breeding colonies in a segment of Antarctica where the sea ice completely disappeared. Click to read more...

Emperor penguin chicks at four out of five colonies in Antarctica did not survive the spring of 2022, prompting fears for the animal’s future.

Four of the five emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica's Bellingshausen Sea near-total breeding failure last year as a result of declining sea ice across the…

"The overall population of the species will reduce rapidly over the coming decades," researcher Peter T. Fretwell told Newsweek.

Last year’s reduction in sea ice around west Antarctica is believed to be responsible for breeding failure in four out of five surveyed emperor penguin colonies, the British Antarctic Survey says.

Of five sites monitored in the Bellingshausen Sea region, four experienced a 100 percent loss of chicks, scientists say.