The predicted loss of sea ice around Antarctica over the next century may doom one of the celebrities of the animal world to extinction.
Emperor penguins, the species of these aquatic flightless birds
featured in the Oscar-winning 2005 documentary “March of the Penguins,”
breed on Antarctic sea ice and dive from the sea ice to feed on krill,
fish and squid [Reuters]. In a new study, researchers examined the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) projections on how global warming |