Deaths attributed directly to climate change cast pall over penguins
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 08:00
in Earth & Climate
Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly -- by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds -- but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new finding.