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Oiled penguins
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Issue Date: Mar 31, 2001
A team of researchers from the us and New Zealand has found penguin chicks in the Antarctic covered in oil. It has completed an environmental survey of a former Antarctic research station at Cape Hallett and recommended steps to safeguard penguin chicks from melt pools contaminated with oil from an unknown source. The team discovered the pools during a site visit in January 2001. The oil they believes has come from petroleum residues found in about a dozen small melt pools on the site.
Tags: Science & Technology, Antarctica, Birds, Environmental Sciences, New Zealand, Oil Pollution, Research, US
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