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Posted Wed Jul 2 2008: from University of Washington, via ScienceDaily:
Penguins Setting Off Sirens Over Health Of World's Oceans http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1215011430
[T]he culprit isn't only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist. Oil pollution, depletion of fisheries and rampant coastline development that threatens breeding habitat for many penguin species, along with Earth's warming climate, are leading to rapid population declines among penguins, said Dee Boersma, a University of Washington biology professor and an authority on the flightless birds. "Penguins are among those species that show us that we are making fundamental changes to our world," she said.
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