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November 10th, 2026

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I’m reading again from Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point, A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; published in 2011 by Picador. The spare, beautiful Antarctic islands of South Shetland Islands are breeding home to adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins. Wayne and Sue Trivelpiece have been researching the lives of these birds for decades. The birds rely on krill. They have found that fewer chicks are surviving their first years at sea; from “up to the 1980s,  about 4 out of 10; Since 1990 it has been more like 1 out of 10. Something about the penguins food is changing…”