Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the summer of 2015 to the spring of 2016, beachgoers from Alaska to California encountered something very strange: the bodies ...

A record 4 million common murres died as a result of a two-year marine heat wave in Alaska, a study found. A reduced murre colony nests on South Island of the Semidi Islands in 2021 after the heat ...

It was a chilly, gray December morning on Front Beach in Unalaska and Megan Dean gripped her binoculars, counting birds in Iliuliuk Bay. “One, two, three, four,” Dean counted methodically, watching ...

In recent years, climate change has increasingly made headlines, but few stories are as alarming as the record heat wave that struck Alaska. The impact of this extreme weather event, which occurred ...

ALASKA, USA — The common murre is a bird that, until 10 years ago, fit its name. “The common murre is – or at least was – pretty common,” explained University of Washington Professor and Marine ...

An ocean heat wave in the northeast Pacific killed 4 million common murre birds, making it the largest documented single-species die-off in the modern era, new research has found. A study published in ...

Now to the remote Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska. About a decade ago, people living there noticed something was missing. A once-abundant seabird seemed to be vanishing.

(KRON) — A sick seabird with apparent oiled feathers was found on a beach at Point Reyes National Seashore, park officials said over the weekend. A wildlife biologist responded to Drakes Beach to ...

(CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest recorded die-off of a single species in modern history, research has found. The ...