Is mercury pollution a real threat to penguins? Here's what scientists have discovered and what mercury is doing to these ...

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

Feathers from three penguin species—Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap—were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by William R. Fraser, lead investigator with the Polar Oceans Research Group ...

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

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by ...

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

Research conducted by Rutgers University on seemingly untouched polar regions has revealed the presence of mercury pollution, ...

Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus ... Researchers led by Michael Polito of Louisiana State University analyzed amino acids in the penguin feathers of both species collected in the 1930s, ...