Warming decimates Antarctica's emperor penguin chicks
Of five sites monitored in the Bellingshausen Sea region, all but one experienced a 100 per cent loss of chicks, they reported in Communications: Earth & Environment, a Nature journal.
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Penguins are seen on January 1, 2010 on the Antartic Peninsula. (AFP File Photo)
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Helpless emperor penguin chicks perished at multiple breeding grounds in West Antarctica late last year, drowning or freezing to death when sea ice eroded by global