Climate change is worsening the diets of Antarctic Adélie penguins, according to a new study published in Current Biology.
US researchers used three decades of data from satellite imagery to study the changing colour of the penguins’ faeces.
They found a direct correlation between the poop – signalling the amount of fish in the penguins’ diets – and the volume of sea ice present near their colonies.
The general decline in sea ice in the Southern Ocean during the study…
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