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Frequent oil spills threatening the lives of Magellanic penguins in South America

Oil spills are most definitely NOT green news. Unfortunately, they are exactly the opposite. Again, unfortunately, it seems that they are all too common off the coast of Argentina, which is causing problems for the local population of Magellanic penguins. Penguins need to be able to stay waterproof due to the fact that they enter and exit the water in frigid temperatures regularly. When the oil gets on the birds, they no longer have the protection that they need to survive the cold temperatures in which they live. Forty of the birds were ... Read more →

1,000 tonnes (1.3 million liters) of heavy fuel oil on burning ship near the South Pole Jeremy Korzeniewski

I ran across this article on Treehugger today, and thought I'd share it with you. It seems that a Japanese whaling ship is currently adrift and on fire near the South Pole. According to New Zealand, ...

Frequent oil spills threatening the lives of Magellanic penguins in South America 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Oil spills are most definitely NOT green news. Unfortunately, they are exactly the opposite. Again, unfortunately, it seems that they are all too common off the coast of Argentina, which is causing problems for the local population of Magellanic penguins. Penguins need to be able to stay waterproof ...

1,000 tonnes (1.3 million liters) of heavy fuel oil on burning ship near the South Pole 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I ran across this article on Treehugger today, and thought I'd share it with you. It seems that a Japanese whaling ship is currently adrift and on fire near the South Pole. According to New Zealand, there is a danger to some 250,000 pairs of breeding penguins and other local wildlife. The captain of ...


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