Humans visit and confirm existence of penguin colony
(Photo: International Polar Foundation)
The existence of a 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins in East Antarctica has been confirmed by three people who visited it for the first time.
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Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and three times faster, experts warn
(Photo: NASA Earth Observatory)
What had been a blurry picture about polar ice — especially how it impacts sea levels — just got a whole lot clearer as experts on Thursday published a peer-reviewed study they say puts to rest the debate over whether the poles added to, or subtracted from, sea level rise over the last two decades.
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Two new emperor penguin colonies spied in Antarctica
(Photo: Robin Cristofari / CNRS / Institut polaire francais IPEV)
Researchers have finally found a long-sought colony of emperor penguins in eastern Antarctica, but they say it’s been split in two due to a glacier break. Moreover, a tally of the 6,000 chicks among these two populations suggests there are more emperor penguin parents in this part of the frozen continent than previously thought.
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