Ocean Sentry
Atmospheric dynamics and sea ice conditions are behind this lengthening of the snow-free season, the scientists found, and the consequences are far reaching — including birds laying eggs sooner and iced-over rivers flowing earlier.
August, 2017
July, 2017
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28 July
British seabirds face an ‘uncertain future’ as UK waters warm up
Severe summer storms, which are one consequence of climate change, are hitting the breeding colonies of several species.
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24 July
We do practically nothing to control wild cats threatening rare seals and birds
While Hawaii’s animal rights and environmental groups are sharply divided on solutions, there’s little government support even for steps the two sides agree on. In a five-year period on Kauai, 268 kills were logged, including eggs, chicks and adult birds.
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9 July
Even tiny amounts of oil could doom seabirds
Some of the most devastating pictures after big oil spills are of seabirds coated in black sludge. But a new study reveals that even a small amount of oil could cause major damage to bird populations.
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8 July
Third of seabirds found dead on NZ and Australian shores had eaten plastic
More than a third of seabirds found dead on New Zealand and Australia’s beaches have plastic in their stomachs.
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7 July
Teen receives 45-day sentence in Kaena Point albatross slaying
He had been charged with felony theft and animal cruelty in a case that involved the destruction of more than a dozen federally protected birds and their nests.
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6 July
Prep school teens were accused of massacring protected birds. Did they get off too easy?
The first of the bodies was discovered by a hiker who snapped a photo of the suspicious scene with his cellphone. Buried in a nest on the westernmost spit of the Hawaiian island of Oahu was a dead bird the size of a human child. On the ground next to …
June, 2017
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25 June
Last season’s difficulties for Bering Strait auklets may indicate changing climate
Following changes in climate variability, one University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor has discovered surprising changes in the Little Diomede auklet population….
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9 June
Finding new homes won’t help emperor penguins cope with climate change
If projections for melting Antarctic sea ice through 2100 are correct, the vanishing landscape will strip Emperor penguins of their breeding and feeding grounds and put populations at risk. But like other species that migrate to escape the wrath of climate change, can these iconic animals be spared simply by …
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7 June
Radar shows steep decline in Kauai seabirds’ population
Two endangered seabird species on Hawaii’s Kauai have lost more than 75 percent of their respective populations in the past two decades…
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7 June
Fishing lines killing hundreds of seabirds
More than 1000 albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters are estimated to have been killed in fishing lines off the New Zealand coast last year…
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6 June
African penguins threatened by climate change and over-fishing
The African penguin joins the list of species said to be threatened by climate change – and overfishing. Researchers from the UK and South Africa say penguin numbers in the Benguela upwelling ecosystem have halved in just 30 years…