Vast majority of Emperor penguins in jeopardy within next 80 years: study

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By 2100, almost the entire Emperor penguin population could die out due to rapidly melting ice, suggests research published Tuesday in the Global Change Biology. 
The study found that 98 percent of the colonies of Emperor penguin colonies could be gone in the next 80 years if ice melt continues at its current pace. About 70 percent of colonies could die off by 2050, the research adds.
The study notes that emperor penguins rely on sea ice for survival, including to breed on, hunt for food, use for protection and rest, and to molt on. The effect of sea ice loss on penguin populations was already seen in 2016 when extremely low levels of sea ice caused a massive breeding failure of an Emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, according to the Associated Press.

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