{"id":28539,"date":"2025-12-19T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/save-us.life\/?p=28539"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:49:02","slug":"emperor-penguins-on-the-brink-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/save-us.life\/zh\/archives\/28539","title":{"rendered":"Emperor penguins on the brink of chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fclMEbMgHM1kgi3yRi8U0WQ4Ui0OyAjr1o9GXF2q0vdn6G0vARubQ36RbZDGl4uW-oxsGQS9jpT437lpKANvb7_kavuLpx6Y-T2K_GCobi0OxAKTUSqDwr7icBdmT_XWE2_tQBn4TZQvNHzV4-lrrGv97FdRPmDet9Wr1F68x7rfhFTsvQeIxup5mTynr6uDEtPzOAUZWTyss7tl5eO9B1dqrWTrSB_Qa_TeUgmHEPdnHBH-dKlL5w8e=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1516977621718-a0cb58c12ebb?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1000&amp;q=80\" alt=\"stormo di pinguini\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South of South America lies the Antarctic, and this region is suffering from the folly of mankind. The melting ice cap is causing almost total and catastrophic mortality among Emperor penguin chicks, jeopardizing their reproduction and the survival of the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a terrible situation that can be explained by global warming, which is destabilizing the ice cap. At this rate, these seabirds, endemic to the South Pole, could well be the first species to disappear from the planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emperor penguins are likely to become the first polar species to become extinct as a result of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/y78EqmHRIE6N7ECgs_bwgqINxuEZGgVpu_J79bJngop0ZZ-qlcUC8wlheYAD1pLEeODQr-CRcyFX7XDRKjoxAmAakxpEiCYFiS2Vp4_LtITfzM0-mUx8U0RFb_rjzfvgIiN9udbnHsvP-LkbYZxS02HBoW9i6Zt29XJRpYu59hCcHOcEb52F5Prsp5NnwK_Ss0_99uz0uvVywIktEnJVDR-JxBmF7mHZfZaGVfIMZxyfwoAln-kDLFGm=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1605559222535-22e9009cbc0c?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1000&amp;q=80\" alt=\"pingouins blancs et noirs sur le sable brun pendant la journ\u00e9e\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recently published scientific dossier, however, notes a \u201cgrim\u201d total mortality of chicks in several Antarctic colonies, following the record melting of the sea ice in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studying the behavior of five colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea region of West Antarctica, all but one suffered a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d 100% loss of chicks, who drowned or froze to death when the ice gave way beneath their tiny legs. They were not mature enough to cope with such conditions, the researchers report in Communications: Earth &amp; Environment, a Springer Nature journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/prynRnS0r4spI0Mp1BQfOZU_P46UuSITf_VfA-0U30eQwvV7jOgvjOvZlLQ7j5UfsURSBB9eyvDeKrY-tqpXwTaKY60foAaa0_0ivdn77zAPVoHw5JL2oHRjNGeX2a3QClxWi9iYMAKZmYS79SG26v2TIawU3mgX3ro23wMwTNucj3pARMdAxgVHCl6hDXYmSwzzdKZA2ls55GWwfSBzwOsGywd8R1IVHjMdvaVBqzZepodfAe-2rpZ4aopW7sSt=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/plus.unsplash.com\/premium_photo-1661843621334-455f0f80c68b?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1000&amp;q=80\" alt=\"Pingouins en Antarctique\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the first major failure of emperor penguin reproduction in several colonies at the same time due to melting sea ice, and it\u2019s probably a sign of what\u2019s to come in the future,\u201d lead author Peter Fretwell, a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey, told AFP. We\u2019ve been predicting it for some time, but to actually see it happen is eerie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last spring, in the Southern Hemisphere region from mid-September to mid-December 2022, the Antarctic ice pack, which forms by freezing the ocean\u2019s salt water, had reached record melting speeds, before dropping in February to its lowest level since satellite measurements began 45 years ago. This early melting came in the middle of the emperor penguins\u2019 already complex and fragile breeding season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The renowned British Antarctic Survey estimates that, at the current rate of global warming, almost all emperor penguins could disappear by the end of the century.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South of South America lies the Antarctic, and this region is suffering from the folly of mankind. 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