!['If [the] global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86 per cent decline by the year 2100. (Shutterstock/ File Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/2019-11/shutterstock_611796077.jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=QTXzn3yU "'If [the] global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86 per cent decline by the year 2100. (Shutterstock/ File Photo)")
Emperor penguins could be wiped out by unchecked climate change within 80 years as their icy habitat shrinks, a study has warned. The fate of the birds — some of the most striking and charismatic creatures on Earth — is largely tied to the fate of sea ice on which they breed. Emperor penguins will only build their colonies in very specific conditions. Ice must be locked in to the ...
