Climate change could rob the Antarctica of half its penguins by 2099

The sudden climate change being witnessed could rob the Antarctica of half its penguins by 2099 - this is the finding of a research carried out by oceanographer Megan Cimino. The study has found that around 60% of the Adelie Penguin habitat in Antarctica could soon disappear in next four decades as the weather will eventually become unfit for their survival.
Needless to say that climate change is wreaking havoc all over the world and Antarctica is no exception.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 30 June 2016.

Adelie Penguin is one of the two natives of Antarctic penguins and the other is the emperor penguin but Adelie penguins inhibit the full extent of the continent. In the opinion of environmentalists, climate change will hamper the two crucial and primary pathways of these penguins namely, the quality and availability of food and nesting habits.
As a result of climate change and global warming, the warm sea temperature will destroy most of the fish populations and krills which is a vital diet of Adelie penguins. The hardest hit colonies may be in the West Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands, which have already witnessed declining penguin populations.


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An environmental disaster in the Antarctica - colony of 150,000 Adelie penguins wiped out

#adeliepenguins #antarctica #iceberg #B09B The wiping out of 150,000 Adelie penguins from East Antarctica is an environmental disaster because, an iceberg, the size of Rome, has become became lodged in their bay. As a result, these penguins who used to live near a large body of open water, now face extinction- the arrival of the iceberg coupled with fast expansion of ice have affected the food cycle of the birds. They now have to travel nearly 70 miles to get food.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 14 February 2016.

Already nearly 150,000 penguins of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay have been killed. The iceberg measures approximately 1,120 square miles (this is larger than Luxemberg) and the penguins are forced to trek 70 miles for food. The colony once had a population of 160,000 and it has shrunk to just 10,000 since 2011. These findings are based on research carried out by the Climate Change Research Center at Australia's University of New South Wales.
Incidentally, there have been penguins at Cape Dension for more than 100 years, but the outlook for the penguins remaining in the area is dire. In the opinion of scientists, the colony will vanish within 20 years unless the sea ice breaks up or the giant iceberg, dubbed B09B, is dislodged.
The iceberg B09B has apparently been floating close to the bay for 20 years before it finally crashed into a glacier and got stuck.


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