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Washington Post: Antarctica’s penguins could be decimated by climate change🇦🇶 For millions of years, fluctuating climates have impacted Adélie penguins, which breed on ice-free, rocky ground.
Colder climates and expanding glaciers led penguins to abandon ice-covered breeding habitats. Warming climates and melting glaciers meant more breeding territory for these penguins, one of only two true Antarctic penguin species. (Emperor penguins are the other.)
But warming may have reached a tipping point — and the Adélie penguin population could be decimated.
That’s according to a study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, which estimates that Adélie colonies could decline by as much as 60 percent by the end of the century.
xAdélie penguins are one of two true Antarctic penguins, and they are threatened by a changing climate https://t.co/qKRMjGPJIS
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) June 29, 2016.