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    Satellite Imagery Shows New Penguin Colonies in Antarctica

    Satellite Imagery Shows New Penguin Colonies in Antarctica

    New satellite images have revealed 11 new throngs of emperor penguin colonies, lifting the number of known emperor penguin colonies by 20 percent and their total population by 5 to 10 percent, according to The Guardian. “The [new colonies] are an exciting discovery,” said Peter Fretwell, at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who led the […]

    Protecting Argentina’s Imperiled Penguins From Plastic Waste

    Protecting Argentina’s Imperiled Penguins From Plastic Waste

    Tierra del Fuego is at the southernmost tip of South America and is sometimes known as the “end of the world.” This windswept part of Argentina is home to seven penguin colonies which breed, nest and feed in the area. Yet even here, the evidence of human encroachment on nature is clear. Plastic waste from […]

    Antarctic Penguin Poop Emits Laughing Gas

    Antarctic Penguin Poop Emits Laughing Gas

    A colony of king penguins in Antarctica emit so much nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, in their poop that researchers went a little “cuckoo,” while studying them, according to Agence France Presse, which reported on a new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The study looked at the effects of a […]

    This Penguin Colony Has Fallen by 77% on Antarctic Islands

    This Penguin Colony Has Fallen by 77% on Antarctic Islands

    The climate crisis is taking a toll on Antarctica‘s chinstrap penguins. Scientists on a Greenpeace expedition to Antarctica found that the penguins’ numbers were falling, with one colony decreasing by 77 percent in nearly 50 years. This is especially surprising because, up until now, the chinstrap penguin has been considered a species of “least concern” […]

    World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Shrunk 90% in Last Three Decades

    World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Shrunk 90% in Last Three Decades

    The world’s largest colony of king penguins declined nearly 90 percent in the last three decades, researchers announced Monday. The colony inhabits France’s subantarctic Île aux Cochons or Pig Island. Observations from the 1980s showed that it was once home to 2 million king penguins, making it the planet’s largest colony of the species, and […]

    One of World’s Last Great Wildernesses Declared Free of Bird-Killing Rats

    One of World’s Last Great Wildernesses Declared Free of Bird-Killing Rats

    Following a £10 million ($13.5 million) eradication scheme and nearly a decade of work, South Georgia was officially declared rodent-free on Tuesday, the first time since humans arrived on the island more than 200 years ago. The British territory is one of the world’s last great wildlife areas. There you’ll find 98 percent of the […]