Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The health of penguin colonies give us vital clues about the impact of the climate crisis in the Antarctic. Scientists on a current expedition have some good and bad news.
Dr. Alex Borowitz and his team from Stony Brook University in New York have spent the past few weeks counting penguins in Antarctica. They’ve travelled on the Greenpeace research ship, the Arctic Sunrise, and logged nests on the rocky, icy outcrops of the Weddell Sea, below South America.
The health of penguin colonies give us vital clues about the impact of the climate crisis in the Antarctic. Scientists on a current expedition have some good and bad news.
Dr. Alex Borowitz and his team from Stony Brook University in New York have spent the past few weeks counting penguins in Antarctica. They’ve travelled on the Greenpeace research ship, the Arctic Sunrise, and logged nests on the rocky, icy outcrops of the Weddell Sea, below South America.










