At Current Icemelt Pace, Emperor Penguins Extinct Within 100 Years

No more happy feet for Emperor Penguins. According to a new study, if Antarctic ice continues to shrink at its current pace, Emperor Penguins will face extinction within the next 100 years.

Emperor Penguins are one of only two open-sea Antarctic penguin species and depend on the sea ice for survival. After breeding, Emperor Penguins feed among the coastal pack ice where stretches of water are exposed. As a result of disappearing ice, the Emperor Penguins are being forced to retreat inward and could easily become displaced by other animals, losing out on nesting space.

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Comments

[uncomplicatedlife]

They could be transplanted to the St. Lawrence river, cuz there's plenty of ice there!

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

The solution is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVuevsrVD6g

[plugger]

exactly what could President Bush have done or not done that would affect one particle of ice from melting or one drop of water to freeze??? you can put down the pipe any time now

[Kassandra]

Such magnificent birds and the chicks are too cute for words! I am just sick about the new announcements that climate change is probably irreversible. If George W Bush had done nothing else to the world and it's critters. THIS would be enough to lock him up for, IMO.
8 precious years lost to this man and his cronies greed. We'd better step smart on the greening stuff or not only will we be left behind ( along with the Christains!), but we will be responsible for killing one of the only life sustaining planets in the galaxy.
This has been one of the main activist issues of my life and to find that it may already be too late has initiated a grief process. I feel like my mother has died all over again. Not to be dramatic, but that's how it is for me.