How climate change actually may help penguins
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 15:30
in Earth & Climate
By Douglas MainLiveScienceAntarctic warming has been a boon for one large colony of Adélie penguins, a finding that's surprising scientists.A recent study found that over the last 60 years, a colony of the birds on Beaufort Island in the Ross Sea, south of New Zealand, increased by 84 percent, from 35,000 breeding pairs to 64,000 breeding pairs. This increase has come as glaciers have retreated fr...