Sentences with phrase «forcing penguin populations»
Try flight of the penguins: As if our flightless - fowl friends haven't had enough to deal with of late, the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula during the past few decades is also forcing penguin populations to migrate south.
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The planet as a whole has warmed about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 °F in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and sea ice along with penguin population size to diminish.
Krill also face another threat, which was not a focus of our research: Concentrated industrial fishing is depleting local krill populations, potentially forcing penguins and other species to shift their foraging patterns.
The planet as a whole has warmed about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 °F in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and sea ice along with penguin population size to diminish.