World's Largest Penguin Colony Sees Massive Population Drop

King penguins on a remote island are disappearing at an alarming rate, and experts say climate change is likely to blame.

The world’s biggest king penguin colony is in big trouble. It is located on an island called Île aux Cochons, which is part of a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean. New reports show that the number of penguins living there has crashed. About 700,000 birds are missing. This is a huge drop. Scientists say it is an "enormous population crash." For a long time, this island was famous for having the largest group of these penguins on Earth. Now, it has lost that title. The colony has shrunk so much that experts are calling the situation alarming. Why is this happening? Researchers po…