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Unhappy Feet: Global Warming Threatens Emperor Penguins
2014-06-30 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The biggest threat to emperor penguins may not be leopard seals or even killer whales, but a much larger predator: global warming. Climate change, which is quickly melting the sea ice this species depends on for survival, could cause dramatic drops in the number of emperor penguins across Antarctica by the end of the century, a new study finds. Specifically, more than two-thirds of Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies will decline by more than 50 percent by the end of the century under future...
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Antarctica's Emperor Penguins Will Be in Serious Decline By 2100, Study Says
2014-06-30 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Antarctica's Emperor penguins are facing dramatic declines by the end of the century and should be given endangered species status because of the threats posed by climate change, according to an international group of scientists. If sea ice declines at the rates projected by current climate models, at least two-thirds of the colonies will likely shrink by more than 50 percent by 2100, the researchers say. That conclusion follows a 50-year study in eastern Antarctica of Emperor penguins, an iconic...
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Emperor penguins at extinction risk because of climate change
2014-06-30 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change will present a severe threat to the iconic emperor penguin, as temperatures rise and the Antarctic sea-ice that the species depends on disappears, a new study has warned. In a new report, researchers from around the world have urged governments to list emperor penguins the worlds largest penguin species -- as endangered, even though their numbers are expected to rise in the coming decades. Despite optimistic short-term forecasts, the study suggests that all of the 45 known...
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Our Inability To Deal With Climate Change Is Going to Kill Penguins
2014-06-30 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: Move over, polar bears: Its time for Emperor penguins to become the new poster children of climate change. Recently, polar biologists at the University of Minnesota used satellite images of poop stains (scientists are nothing if not resourceful) to show that some colonies of Emperor penguins in Antarctica are uprooting historic nesting sites, possibly to escape warming temperatures. Today, a new study in Nature makes an even more grim prognostication about the future of the species: Thanks to declining...
Study shows penguins are adapting changing Antarctic environment
2014-06-22 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Emperor penguins have shown to be not as attached to their nesting locations as previously thought, meaning that they could adapt much easier to their changing environment, which is being affected by rising global temperatures. A new study by the University of Minnesota has observed penguins` movements over the nesting period and found a new colony on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is believed to have relocated. Lead author of the study Michelle LaRue explained, Our research showing that colonies...
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