150,000 Antarctica penguins die after iceberg grounding: study February 14, 2016 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Sea ice around Antarctica is increasing, in contrast to the Arctic where global warming is causing ice to melt and glaciers to shrink Some 150,000 penguins died after a massive iceberg grounded near their colony in Antarctica, forcing them to make a lengthy trek to find food, scientists say in a newly-published study. The B09B iceberg, measuring some 100 square kilometres (38.6 square miles), grounded in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in December 2010, the researchers from Australia and New Zealand wrote in the Antarctic Science journal. The Adelie penguin population at the bay's Cape Denison was measured to be about 160,000 in February 2011 but by December 2013 it had plunged to an estimated 10,000, they said. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-antarctica-penguins-die-iceberg-grounding.html#jCp
Its heart aching to see this condition. These poor creatures has to pay for our deeds, its basically nature answering to our cruelties we do upon it . As long as we keep on torturing mother nature and come in its natural cycle, sad incidents like this will take place and we shall witness extinction of animals living in harsh conditions.
this story is a beat-up. do some research on it. read the original paper. and no, i am not linking, you do the work.
