A team of researchers from the us and New Zealand has found penguin chicks in the Antarctic covered in oil. It has completed an environmental survey of a former Antarctic research station at Cape Hallett and recommended steps to safeguard penguin chicks from melt pools contaminated with oil from an unknown source. The team discovered the pools during a site visit in January 2001. The oil they believes has come from petroleum residues found in about a dozen small melt pools on the site.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/oiled-penguins
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oil-pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birds
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmental-science
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/research
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/new-zealand
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/antarctica
