Antarctic Penguin Chicks Face Starvation
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A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science stations, a New Zealand official said Tuesday.
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Scientists are  struggling to explain the rare death of 17 loons in New  Hampshire, saying warm weather may have confused the threatened  species of bird which typically heads to the ocean for winter.
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Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, biologists working in the frosty marshes of Alaska's North Slope are keeping a lookout for migratory birds that might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States.
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Scientists were watching on Monday for a collision between a giant iceberg and an Antarctic glacier, which could free up sea lanes to America's McMurdo Station and help penguins reach crucial feeding areas.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Food is running so low aboard the International Space Station that its two crewmen have been instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks.
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Some arctic animals including polar bears and species of seal face the possibility of extinction in just decades because of global warming, the World Wide Fund for Nature said Sunday.
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The feathered creatures winging across North America have an obvious gift that land-bound humans lack, but their survival is threatened by earthly concerns.
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An earthquake which shook an Antarctic penguin colony was the strongest on earth in four years, seismologists say.
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Food is running so low aboard the international space station that flight controllers have instructed the two crewmen to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks.
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The two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been put on a diet because they are running out of food, it emerged today.
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British seabirds have had their worst breeding season ever with industrial fishing a key problem, scientists say.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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Hoping to monitor penguins unobtrusively, scientists are testing a tag made of silicone rubber. Stainless steel tags used currently can impede the birds' ability to hunt.
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Sharks will migrate into Antarctic waters if warming continues, threatening marine animals, scientists warn.
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Swiss zoologists have more than a few hungry mouths to feed this Christmas after a female giant anaconda gave birth to 40 babies, a tropical gardens institution said.
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As the Arctic heats up sooner than scientists anticipated, animals like the polar bear are losing ground.