Susan Rigetti is author of three books and a former editor at The New York Times and Slate. She is a contributing Globe ...

Penguins may look awkward on land, but they are highly specialized marine hunters shaped by life in cold oceans. Their bodies ...

Antarctica’s most distinctive bird species currently experiences an urgent survival challenge. The emperor penguin species from Antarctica which survives in extreme conditions has now reached ...

Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered, pushed towards collapse by the reduction of sea ice. But another ...