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Terre Adelie

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Noun1.Terre Adelie - a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins
Adelie Coast, Adelie Land
Antarctic continent, Antarctica - an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia"
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26, 2009, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that if climate change continues to melt sea ice at the rates published in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, the median population size of the Terre Adelie penguin colony likely would shrink from its present size of 3,000 to only 400 breeding pairs by the end of the century.
Are emperor penguins marching to extinction? by Villano, Matt / Oceanus
These analyses indicate that the Terre Adelie rookery could host only 400 breeding pairs by the end of this century.
Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins by Gaidos, Susan / Science News for Kids
If climate change continues to melt sea ice at the rate highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the large emperor penguin colony in Terre Adelie, Antarctica is set to shrink from its current 3,000 breeding pairs to only 400 pairs in 2100.
Climate change setting penguins on march to extinction: study by AFP / AFP American Edition
 
 
 
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