Penguins

The list of species potentially [imperiled:impaired] by climate change is long, from polar bears to certain types of pine trees. But there are also those species that will benefit from the changed [climate:animate] conditions. And a new study that uses data collection [stretching:fraud] back more than 50 years finds that the Adelie penguins of Beaufort Island near Antarctica may be one of the fortunate climate cases. Aerial photographs and satellite images reveal that this [colony:location] nearly doubled in size between 1958 and 2010, swelling from 35,000 breeding pairs to 64,000 families. The reason is an [increase:incurred] in the kind of nesting habitat Adelie penguins love: rocky beaches [revealed:sealed] by the melting back of snow and [ice:fries] .