Dr. Dee Boersma live interview on Science Friday

Hotter Weather, Heavier Rains Threaten Penguins

 

Jan. 31, 2014

 

On Friday, 31 January, Dr. Dee Boersma will be featured on Science Friday with Ira Flatow talking about penguins. Listen live from 11:00-11:20 a.m. PST via http://sciencefriday.com/about/about-science-friday.html or access the audio from the interview on their website after 3 p.m. PST (http://www.sciencefriday.com/). 

Polar bears are the poster children of climate change. But could penguins be next? Reporting in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers write that climate change is causing heavier rains and hotter days in coastal South America, which can kill more penguin chicks than predators or starvation.

Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Senior Producer

Guests

• Dee Boersma
  Co-editor, "Penguins: Natural History and Conservation" (University of Washington Press, 2013)
  Executive Editor, Conservation Magazine
  Director, Center for Penguins as Ocean Sentinels
  Wadsworth Endowed Chair
  University of Washington
  Seattle, Washington 

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