Filed under: News , Climate Change , Plants and Wildlife As Sea shared last week, a bunch of penguins washed ashore in Brazil , basically making a migration of almost 2,000 miles. Experts believe this behavior may be related to climate change, the resulting availability of fish, and possibly pollution. Last Friday, as a follow up to this report, the World Wildlife Fund released a report stating that climate change is likely to cause a decline — or even wipe out — 1/2 to 3/4 of the penguin colonies in the Antarctic. You know who lives in the Antarctic? Those cute Emperor Penguins from March of the Penguins . Except that pretty soon the only way anyone will know what they look like is by watching that movie, because the penguins cannot adapt fast enough to the changes in their environment. Here are some scary stats from WWF:

Surface temperatures along the West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula have already increased nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the last half-century - many times the global average
Sea ice coverage in that area is 40 percent less than it was a quarter century ago and that penguin populations have already declined significantly.
Adélie Penguin populations have dropped by 65 percent over the past 25 years and at least one population of Emperor Penguins has declined by half over the past 50 years.

Something has to be done to reduce the warming in the polar regions, or you’ll be taking your kids to see a double feature of Death March of the Penguins and Polar Bears: Arctic Tales of Extinction .   Permalink  |  Email this  |  Linking Blogs  |  Comments

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Climate change results in Death March of the Penguins

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