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The clean-up: how small oil spills harm seabirds
2016-08-01 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada have been looking at how oil companies in Newfoundland counter the impacts of small-scale oil spills, which can have detrimental effects on seabirds. Despite this, offshore operators are failing to mo
Seabird Die-off: 'Diving' Seabirds Found Dead in Alaska in Huge Numbers
2016-01-13 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The birds in question were common murres, white ocean flyers that are among North America's most abundant seabirds. They were emaciated and had apparently starved to death, then washed ashore. There were so many that the biologist, David Irons, at first took them for patches of snow. "It was pretty horrifying," Irons said in an Associated Press article. "The live ones standing along the dead ones were even worse." While this bird species has had die-offs in previous winters, Alaska is seeing...
Ocean Plastic Will Be Found in 99% Seabirds by 2050
2015-09-01 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whales. Now, a new study estimates that plastic debris can be found in the majority of all species of seabirds. Every seabird eating plastic by 2050... http://t.co/FmG3rSfQIS via @sciencemagazine Image Chris Jordan. pic.twitter.com/CUIFgPhGbA -- OSPAR (@osparcomm) September 1, 2015 It`s no surprise that as more plastic enters the oceans, more seabirds will accidentally eat it. What`s...
Offshore drilling plans pose threat to New Zealands seabirds says report
2014-05-27 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
New Zealand has more threatened seabird species than anywhere else in the world and the planned deepwater oil and gas drilling may drive them to extinction, according to a new report by Forest & Bird.
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Plastic Pollution Threatening Seabirds
2014-05-13 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Ocean-side plastic pollution, specifically plastic ingestion, is threatening seabirds according to a study published on Marine Pollution Bulletin. Plastic ingestions affects around 94 percent of Cory's shearwaters, a type of seabird, on the Catalan coast. In the case of Yelkouan shearwaters and Balearic shearwaters, the report states that 70 percent of studied birds were affected by plastic ingestion. Plastic pollution is a known threat to marine ecosystems around the world, yet lead researcher...
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