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Icebreaker at work near glacier.
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Seashells and Penguin Bones Reveal Thwaites Glacier’s Quiet Past

by Javier Barbuzano 26 July 202226 July 2022

Antarctica’s Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers are melting faster than they have in the past 5,500 years, new evidence shows. Against expectations, their pasts have been remarkably stable.

A colony of 60,000 pairs of king penguins stands on the exposed gray bedrock of South Georgia.
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How Climate Science Is Expanding the Scale of Ecological Research

by Kate Wheeling 31 March 202025 April 2022

Tools developed for climate science can help researchers forecast ecological dipoles: the contrasting effects of climate on populations separated by thousands of kilometers.

An excavation conducted at an Adélie penguin colony on Earle Island (one of theDanger Islands), Antarctica.
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Penguin Poop Keeps a Record of Antarctic Glaciation

by B. Bedford 11 December 20184 October 2021

Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.

Emperor penguins on the Antarctic ice
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Emperor Penguins’ Huddles Change in Response to Weather

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 13 June 201825 April 2022

How quickly the penguins huddled when weather worsened provided clues about their feeding success and how climate change may alter the Antarctic biosphere, according to scientists.

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Cooling Galápagos Sea Surface Temperatures Affect Local Penguins

by David Shultz 23 November 201512 January 2022

The Galápagos cold pool is expanding northward as a result of climate change, and local penguin populations are rising.

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Ice Loss Benefits Adélie Penguins—For Now

by C. Sullivan 19 November 201525 April 2022

New research that may presage effects of climate change on this species looks back 22,000 years, finding robust growth in the East Antarctic population as melting followed the last ice age.

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