Emperor penguins at threat of extinction due to West Antarctic Ice Shelf collapse: Climate change to blame

Abram, “As the sea ice disappears from the ocean surface, the amount of solar temperature held in the climate system, and it is expected to warm up in the Antarctica region,” he said.

“Other changes in the continent may become unstoppable, including the loss of antarctica ice shelves and the vulnerable parts of the antarctica ice layer.”

Scientists are estimated to have a critical threshold for the collapse of the Western Antarctic ice layer, which is expected to be about two degrees of global average warming above pre -industrial temperatures, but scientists may have a partial collapse under lower temperatures.

Global temperatures reached in 2024 On average of pre -industrial averages, above 1.5 degreesThe Paris Agreement thinks that the target has only been violated when the average temperatures have been above this level for 20 years.

The hottest 10 years registered in the last 10 years.

“Antarctica Sea Ice decrease and the slow circulation in the Southern Ocean shows the worrying signs of being more sensitive to a heated climate,” Abram said.

Professor Matthew England, a Working Author of the University of NSW and ARC Australia Antarctica Science (ACEAs), said that observed changes would lead to deep effects on Australia without emergency intervention.

“For Australia, the rising sea levels, which will affect our coastal communities, include a warmer and deoxygenated southern ocean, less than the atmosphere, causing more intense heating and increasing regional warming from Antarctica sea ice loss beyond Australia and beyond.

Researchers have found that repeated reproductive failures in connection with the scope of declining sea ice may have destructive effects, including emperor penguins.

Emperor’s penguins reproduce between March or April and January on the black ice (known as “fast ice”). However, with the seasonal “fast ice” region becomes seasonal, researchers believe that the emperor penguins are in trouble.

“From more than 60 colonies known [on Antarctica]30 of them have experienced increasing or full reproductive failure since 2016 due to early fast ice loss, and 16 colony has experienced such two or more events, ”he wrote.

Britain, Emperor Penguin chicks before the waterproof feathers growing stable sea ice habitats, he said.

“Due to early sea ice fracture incidents, there was a loss of chick colonies around Antarctic coast, and some colonies have experienced multiple reproductive failure in the last decade.”

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