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After watching a nature show, Veronica decides to go on an adventure to Antarctica to evaluate a penguin program and determine if it would be a better match for her estate. The scientists try to keep her away, but she is determined to see the penguins and evaluate their program. Soon Veronica is traipsing around visiting the penguins and “helping” the scientists. The penguins really touch Veronica and she is reinvigorated.A note for animal lovers: There is one brief scene of bird-on-penguin violence that may be disturbing.

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Emperors on thin ice: Three years of breeding failure at Halley Bay. Antarctic Science, 31( 3), 133–138. 10.1017/S0954102019000099But before she commits, she decides that she needs to visit the research station and get to know the people she's leaving her money to (much to the researcher's, her housekeeper's and her grandson's horror). So when Veronica and Daisy are invited to travel to the other side of the world together and visit the penguins of the southern hemisphere, they both jump at the chance. Antarctic penguin response to habitat change as Earth’s troposphere reaches 2°C above preindustrial levels. Ecological Monographs, 80( 1), 49–66. 10.1890/08-2289.1 Future projections consistently simulate Antarctic sea ice loss across seasons, suggesting a predictable GHG‐forced signal. Although there is considerable structural model uncertainty in the magnitude of projected sea ice loss, the sign of change is consistent, and ~75% of CMIP5 models reach a near ice‐free state in February under RCP8.5 forcing by 2100 (Collins et al., 2013). The influence of forcing scenario is apparent in sea ice projections, and multi‐model means clearly diverge by 2100 (Roach et al., 2020). I highly recommend this one, as I enjoyed learning about these beautiful creatures, and only wish that I had discovered it sooner!

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I received an Advanced Readers Copy from Edelweiss and Berkley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions included herein are my own. The only criticism I have to offer regarding How the Penguins Saved Veronica is fairly minor, in nature. And it’s that I think the story would have benefited from Prior fleshing out the secondary characters a bit further, namely the three penguin researchers in Antarctica. All three play important roles in the story and knowing each of them a bit more would’ve further rounded out the novel. If you are looking for a heart warming delightful book to read then this one will be a great choice. What does it mean to successfully conserve a (vertebrate) species? BioScience, 61( 1), 39–48. 10.1525/bio.2011.61.1.9Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; 12‐month findings on petitions to list 25 species as endangered or threatened species. Federal Register, 82, 46644. [ Google Scholar] There were some themes that had the potential to be explored in much greater depth that were just skirted over. A gorgeous read full of hope, with a cast of characters who will delight! Helen Paris, author of Lost Property Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117( 8), 4211–4217. 10.1073/pnas.1913007117 Emigration in emperor penguins: Implications for interpretation of long‐term studies. Ecography, 38( 2), 114–120. 10.1111/ecog.00990

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Hazel Prior gets the balance of humour just right against serious issues of illness, family discoveries and environmental issues. I laughed out loud many times at Veronica's sharp tongue and her very precise way of speaking and thinking. The settings of Veronica's home in Scotland and the fictional islands in Antarctica and the Falklands are portrayed beautifully and of course, once again, the penguin stars of the story are absolutely charming. She also finds most human company irksome, and deplores stupid questions so she pretends to be hard of hearing when it’s suits her. Fiercely resilient and impeccably dressed, Veronica McCreedy has lived an incredible 87 years. Most of them alone, in her huge house by the sea. These two characters really grew on me and I love how they found each other in life. I enjoyed this author’s writing style and found this story to be really uplifting.

She can be found either collecting litter from the beach (‘people who litter the countryside should be shot’), trying to locate her glasses (‘someone must have moved them’) or shouting instructions to her assistant, Eileen (‘Eileen, door!’). Our model makes assumptions about the ecology of emperor penguins based on over 60years of research (see discussion in Jenouvrier et al., 2014). It assumes ecological carrying capacity remains constant over time (Jenouvrier et al., 2017). However, a probable impact of sea ice loss will be on Antarctic trophic food web structure, including on emperor penguin prey. Decreased foraging habitat and availability (or abundance) of prey will reduce carrying capacity. On the other hand, as in the Arctic (Kaartvedt & Titelman, 2018), new species may colonize high‐latitude waters, constituting new resources for opportunistic foraging (Trathan et al., 2020) by emperor penguins. Emperor penguins breed on unstable habitat. When sea ice is sub‐optimal, breeding on land or on ice shelves is sometime possible, but most likely will result in higher energy expenditure (longer foraging trips, greater exposure to cold and wind, etc.). Thus, although the species may adapt in part, it is uncertain whether this is a long‐term solution as birds would still be subject to the consequences of an altered food web. With time, many uncertainties will decrease as the response of emperor penguins to climate change becomes progressively apparent. Extreme events that will increase in frequency in the future proportionally to the loss of sea ice and produce a complete breeding failure at a colony in a given year; Stratospheric ozone depletion: An unlikely driver of the regional trends in Antarctic sea ice in austral fall in the late twentieth century. Geophysical Research Letters, 44( 21). 10.1002/2017GL075618 I just can’t get over all the penguin cuteness in Hazel Prior’s new novel, How the Penguins Saved Veronica. OMG.