Penguin colony shrinks and a coal expansion is blocked

The British Antarctic Survey reports that Zavodovski Island has lost more than 500000 chinstrap penguins since 2011. The loss ends the status of the island as the largest penguin colony in the world. Warming waters are said to reduce access to Antarctic krill. Krill is the food link named in the finding.

The species is the chinstrap penguin. The island is Zavodovski Island in Antarctica. The starting year for the loss figure is 2011. The number is more than 500000 birds.

On the same day, the High Court of Australia rejected an appeal by MACH Energy. The company had wanted to expand the Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales. The court found that planning authorities failed to consider greenhouse gas emissions adequately. Those emissions are from burning exported coal overseas.

The mine is Mount Pleasant. The company is MACH Energy. The court is the High Court. The planning failure concerns overseas emissions from exported coal.

The penguin finding is about a colony and a food source under warming waters. The coal finding is about a mine expansion that will not proceed on the appeal. Both are environment reports from the same day. One is in Antarctica and the other is in New South Wales.

The penguin figures are more than 500000 and the year 2011. The coal case names MACH Energy, Mount Pleasant, and exported-coal emissions. The survey body is the British Antarctic Survey. The court is the High Court of Australia.