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Emperor penguins are now endangered amid climate change and melting ice

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Emperor penguins are now endangered amid climate change and melting ice
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Emperor penguins are native to Antarctica, where record low sea ice over the last decade has dramatically changed their habitat. Populations of the world’s largest penguin have fallen so much that they have now officially moved from near threatened to endangered in the latest assessment by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global conservation authority, published April 9. “Penguins are already among the most threatened birds on Earth,” Martin Harper, CEO of BirdLife International, whi

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