Penguins Offer Varied Clues to Antarctic Climate Change

Peering through binoculars from an inflatable motorboat bobbing in frigid waters, polar ecology researchers Michael Wethington and Alex Borowicz scan a rocky outcrop on Antarctica’s Andersson Island for splatterings of redbrown guano that might signal a colony of penguins nearby.

The birds have become far more than an iconic symbol of the earth’s frozen south...

 

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