Climate Change Could Devastate Emperor Penguins, U.S. Officials Warn
The Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal on Tuesday to list the birds as a threatened species.
In 2016, the Antarctic’s second-largest colony lost more than 10,000 emperor penguin chicks.Credit.David Tipling/Education Images, via Universal Images Group, via Getty Images
Aug. 3, 2021
Climate change is threatening emperor penguins with extinction in much of their range, federal wildlife officials said on Tuesday as they announced a proposal to protect them under the Endangered Species Act.
The penguins live much of the year on Antarctic sea ice, which is disappearing or breaking apart because of the heat-trapping gases released by humans’ use of fossil fuels. The penguins need the ice to breed, raise their young and escape predators.
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Emperor penguin colonies fear extinction as climate change triggers ice melt
Emperor penguin colonies fear extinction as climate change triggers ice melt
98% of Emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction if no changes are made to current rates of carbon emissions and climate change.
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UPDATED: August 4, 2021 13:47 IST
An Emperor penguin stands on Peka Peka Beach of the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand. (Photo: AP)
With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Emperor penguins at risk of extinction as climate change triggers ice melt
Research published in the journal Global Change Biology found that by 2100, 98% of Emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction, if no changes are made to current rates of carbon emissions and climate change 98% of Emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction Associated Press
Updated Aug 04, 2021, 2:26 PM IST
With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Emperor penguins may be listed as threatened under Endangered Species Act due to climate change s impact
August 4, 2021 / 5:25 AM / AP Penguins at risk in Antarctica
Washington With climate change threatening the sea ice habitat of Emperor penguins, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to list the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The lifecycle of Emperor penguins is tied to having stable sea ice, which they need to breed, to feed and to molt, said Stephanie Jenouvrier, a penguin ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Research published Tuesday in the journal Global Change Biology found that by 2100, 98% of Emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction if no changes are made to current rates of carbon emissions and climate change.