Climate could wipe out king penguins | COSMOS magazine

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One of the emblems of the Antarctic, the king penguin, could be driven to extinction by climate change, say French researchers.

In a long-term investigation on the penguins’ main breeding grounds, investigators found that a tiny warming of the Southern Ocean by the El Nio effect caused a massive fall in the birds’ ability to survive.