Common murres are clustered together on a cliff ledge in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on July 30, 2019. Annual monitoring of key nesting sites has found that the common murre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Many vertebrates exhibit marked population cycles when periods of population growth end, with population crashes eliminating a large number of individuals. The Common Murre Uria aalge is an example of ...

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 ...

Seabird populations across vast stretches of the Pacific and even into Antarctic waters are collapsing under a combination of ...

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 ...

Die-offs of common murres have been taking place across Alaska since summer and the latest report is from Kachemak Bay, according to biologists with the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in ...

The mass of dead seabirds that have washed up on Alaska beaches in past months is unprecedented in size, scope and duration, a federal biologist said at an Anchorage science conference. The staggering ...

The loss of an estimated 4 million common murres during the marine heatwave known as the “Blob” was the biggest bird die-off in recorded history, and seven or eight years later, the population has not ...

(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 ...