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Penguins presumed dead after disappearing in Antarctica may have just moved on
2016-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: News of their deaths prompted outcry worldwide, but the 150,000 Adelie penguins that were thought to have perished after they were landlocked by an enormous iceberg could still be alive, a scientist has claimed. Their colony shrank drastically after the B09B iceberg approximately the size of Rome floated in to their habitat close to Cape Denison, a rocky point at the head of Antarcticas, Commonweath Bay. Researchers from Australias University of New South Wales suggested they had died...
Thousands of penguins die after iceberg traps colony
2016-02-14 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: About 150,000 penguins have died since being stranded by a vast iceberg that became lodged off the coast of Antarctica six years ago, according to the journal Antarctic Science. Combined with expanding ice, the B09B iceberg, which at 1,120 square miles is almost the size of Rhode Island, has cut off the Adelie penguins' food supply and changed the landscape of their home, according to a February report in the peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press. The towering mass of...
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March of the Penguins director to close Cannes with climate change film Ice and the Sky
2015-05-17 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: March Of The Penguins enraptured audiences worldwide and won its French director an Oscar. Now, Luc Jacquet is back with another film set in Antarctica one that promises to have a very different impact on cinema-goers, even if it does still feature some penguins. The director has spoken of his trip to the continent to film the documentary Ice and the Sky about Claude Lorius the man credited with discovering global warming and how shocked he was to see the effects of climate change at first...
Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age
2015-03-01 07:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A study of how climate change has affected emperor penguins over the last 30,000 years found that only three populations may have survived during the last ice age, and that the Ross Sea in Antarctica was likely the refuge for one of these populations. The Ross Sea is likely to have been a shelter for emperor penguins for thousands of years during the last ice age, when much of the rest of Antarctica was uninhabitable due to the amount of ice. The findings, published today in the journal Global...
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Penguins: Appeal filed by Hill District group may jeopardize U.S. Steel headquarters development
2015-01-08 18:25:10| Steel - Topix.net
An appeal filed last week by a Hill District group may jeopardize construction of the new United States Steel Corp. headquarters, according a petition to intervene filed Wednesday by the Pittsburgh Penguins' development group.
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