At sea, however, we were in the true home of seabirds -- large flocks near land, and a bird every few minutes even far offshore. The rich waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska support one of ...

Colony surveys of common murres, an Alaskan seabird, show the full effects of the 2014-16 marine heat wave known as 'the blob.' Analysis of 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 finds that colony ...

But in 2015 and 2016, officials tallied 62,000 emaciated corpses from California to Alaska. Since then, scientists have been piecing together what happened to the birds, along with other species ...

Climate change played a role in the deaths of thousands of puffins in Alaska, scientists said in May. They said they believed the birds had starved to death when the fish they eat migrated north ...