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 ...

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Research shows that the common murre species died of starvation as the hot water killed off much of their prey Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Why did nearly one million common murres wash ashore dead from California to Alaska in 2015 and 2016? “The blob,” caused this seabird die-off, say researchers. Although the common murre must eat about ...

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About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research. By Catrin Einhorn The first ...

After a marine heatwave called "the Blob" killed off large numbers of a seabird called the common murre along the West Coast between 2014 and 2016, scientists estimated that up to 1 million birds had ...

On Saturday, March 7 at the San Pedro Valley Park Visitor Center, The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park will present an award-winning film on the Common Murre written, directed, and produced by Kevin ...

An extreme marine heatwave linked to climate change devastated Alaska’s common murre (Uria aalge) population, wiping out nearly four million seabirds — about half of their global numbers — over a ...