IPCC report: Climate news is about to get worse

On the other end of the planet, a new study predicts that thanks to melting ice in Antarctica, 98 percent of the world’s emperor penguin colonies could be gone by the end of the century. “There is a ‘moderate’ sea ice area,” Stephanie Genouvrier, a seabird ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “If there is little sea ice, the chicks can drown when the sea ice breaks early; If there is a lot of sea ice, the foraging trips become very long and arduous, and the chicks may starve.”