How you can help with penguin research by browsing images at home

Many penguin populations are under threat but you can help researchers keep an eye on them through a citizen science project called Penguin Watch

By Layal Liverpool

What you need

A computer

A web browser open to penguinwatch.org

A keen eye for penguins

NEXT time you are struggling to fall asleep, try counting penguins instead of sheep. Doing so could help us see how the birds are being affected by threats like climate change.

Tom Hart at the University of Oxford and his colleagues are constantly capturing photographs of penguins through a network of about 140 remote cameras planted across Antarctica. There are far more images than the researchers can process on their own, so Hart and his team set up a project …