Sky News to join British climate change expedition to Antarctica
A British expedition to Antarctica to study ice cap melting and the impact of global warming on penguin colonies will be joined by Sky News amid warnings that 2020 is the worlds last chance to act on the issue. Scientists have struggled to count the emperor penguin population until now, utilising satellite imagery to get a more accurate number which they now believe to be twice as many as previously thought. The expedition will seek to determine the damage done to Antarcticas ice caps as the emperor penguins need the sea ice to breed. The space needed to sustain this population will become smaller and smaller as Antarctica has lost three trillion tons of ice over the last 25 years, and half of that has been lost in the last five years. Read More Our Apps