The loss of ice in one region of Antarctica last year likely resulted in none of the emperor penguin chicks surviving in four colonies, researchers reported Thursday. Emperor penguins hatch their eggs and raise their chicks on the ice that forms around the continent each Antarctic winter and melts in the summer months. Researchers used satellite imagery to look at breeding colonies in a region near Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea. The images showed no ice was left there in December during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, as had occurred in 2021. FILE PHOTO: Penguins walk on the shore of Bahia Almirantazgo in Antarctica on Jan.27, 2015. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) Researchers said it is likely that no chicks survived in four of the five breeding colonies they examined. Pengui...
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