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Emperor Penguins Forced To Climb Cliffs To Breed As Climate Change Causes Arctic Sea Ice To Melt
2014-01-12 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: When an animal species depends on sea ice for a good part of its life cycle, what are they going to do when that sea ice starts to melt and disappear due to climate change? Well for some colonies of emperor penguins, it appears the only solution is to move away from that melting sea ice even if it means climbing up the very steep sides of floating ice shelves to find safer breeding sites. The new behavior described this week in the journal PLoS One was observed in four of the 46 known emperor...
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