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Southern Comfort
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

As Antarctica’s warming climate threatens Adélie populations on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, more southerly locales are actually becoming more hospitable to the penguins. At Cape Crozier near McMurdo Sound, Adélies number in the hundreds of thousands.