Disappearing sea ice in Antarctica is putting emperor penguins at risk of extinction, researchers warn.
"The population is declining," says Hal Caswell, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an author of a new study in Nature Climate Change. "Unless something changes to stop that, the population will go into extinction."
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