Summary: Penguin Food Source Declines
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REPORT FINDINGS: Stocks of krill, a shrimp-like crustacean, have declined about 80 percent since the 1970s in ocean waters near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The decline of migratory birds due to an accelerating Arctic thaw may also disrupt the delicate ecosystems of their far-flung winter homes from Africa to South America, experts said on Wednesday.
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By Naoki, Kazuya  ABSTRACT.-  The distribution and abundance of food are primary factors affecting resource-use patterns in birds. Many bird species eat several food types, which may differ in their distribution and overall abundance.
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Urgent action is needed to prevent further declines in albatross and petrel populations, wildlife groups recommend.
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A report released recently by the National Audubon Society indicates a number of bird species are decreasing in number all over the country.
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The glaciers in West Antarctica have substantially increased their rate of shrinkage compared with the 1990s. US-Chilean teams report to the journal Science that the glaciers are losing 60% more ice into the
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Huge and distant cousins of today&rsquo;s ice-loving penguins might have basked in a warm climate along the Peruvian coast more than 30 million years ago, fossils of two extinct penguin species suggest.
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Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are poking into the private lives of Steller's eiders &#151; a rare sea duck that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska.
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People will need to eat more vegetables and less meat because of dwindling water supplies, scientists say.
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A Japanese whaling ship that drifted powerless for nine days near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground had posed a huge risk to the pristine Antarctic environment, New Zealand's prime minister said Monday.
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Â· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants  Â· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction.
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Populations of the hamster-like American pika continue to decline in the West and global warming is partly to blame, a new study says.
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Unless urgent action is taken to slow down global warming polar bears will be extinct by the end of the century. The stark warning is contained in an authoritative report compiled by more than 250 scientists on the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
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A mystery disease is killing off yellow-eyed penguin chicks in New Zealand in a fresh blow to efforts to conserve the world's rarest member of the penguin family, a conservation group said on Thursday.
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Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; and the entire population gone from Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground near Antarctica, posing more problems to scientific bases and penguin colonies, where tens of thousands of chicks face starvation, scientists said Thursday.