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Scientists looked at Antarctica from the air. What they saw has them worried
“It’s exactly what it sounds like,” says co-author Michael Polito, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement. “We spied on penguins from space by using satellite images to figure what they eat all around Antarctica to help explain their diet and population response to recent climate change.”…
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The color of penguin poo: Satellites reveal the chilling truth of global warming’s impact on an iconic polar species
Scientists study poop patterns of Adélie penguin colonies across all of Antarctica over a 30-year span using Landsat satellite images, a first for capturing food-web and population trends at continental and decadal scales relative to climate change