New insights on climate change risk to emperor penguins

A recent study on emperor penguins atTerre Adélie provides more evidence that global warming will be bad news for this species over the long term.

To provide projections of the penguins’ possible fate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologistStéphanie Jenouvrier and her colleagues linked a mathematical models of emperor population dynamic linked to scenarios of possible future changes in sea ice calculated using IPCC climate models.

WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier readies an Emperor p...