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And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

The experience on Main Street stimulated self-improvement, and encouraged members to take pride in their home grounds and the total community.

1 million breeding pairs - will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100.

Although the planned operation will be located more than miles away, drawing the soda ash in through pipelines, conservationists worry it could still upset the natural water cycle and breeding grounds.

And as the distance between their breeding grounds and their food grows, entire colonies could be wiped out.

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

The report found that although some king penguins may be able to relocate to new breeding grounds closer to their retreating food source, suitable new habitats would be scarce.

The study by Greenpeace analysed the movements of krill fishing vessels in the region and found they were increasingly operating "in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds" It also highlights incidents of fishing boats being

The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.