Mass Die-Off of Thousands of Seabirds in the Bering Sea Explained in New Research
At a Glance Dead seabirds, mostly tufted puffins, started washing up on Alaska's St. Paul Island in 2016.Data shows that their deaths could be related to climate change. "It's kind of terrifying," one researcher says. The first dead puffin washed up on the shores of St. Paul Island, a tiny outpost in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, on October 17, 2016. Then there was another, and another and another. Over the next four months a group surveying the beaches of St. Paul...