https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/world-s-largest-penguin-colony-suffers-enormous-population-crashContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/world-s-largest-penguin-colony-suffers-enormous-population-crashhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/world-s-largest-penguin-colony-suffers-enormous-population-crash#u128418Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:01:21 +0000The world's largest penguin colony on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica has suffered an enormous population crash, shrinking by nearly 70% and losing more than half a million breeding chinstrap penguins. A new study shows that the number of breeding pairs plummeted from over a million down to 402,000 between 2011 and 2025. Experts tracking the remote volcanic island via drone and satellite imagery attribute the collapse to climate change, which has disrupted the local food supply as krill populations move south. Consequently, the island has lost its title as home to the planet's larges