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Penguin Colony
April 26 , 2019
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- Halley Bay site in Antarctica, the world’s second-largest penguin colony, has almost disappeared.
- Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reported death of thousands of penguin chicks.
- Most of the penguin chicks drowned when “sea ice” in Antarctica's Weddell Sea was destroyed by storms in 2016.
- Climate change induced recurring storms in 2017 and 2018 nearly destroyed almost all chicks at this site.
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