Leach’s storm petrels, found in abundance off Newfoundland's shores, can find themselves stranded on land after becoming ...

The duck flock was tight on the water about a quarter-mile away. We were standing on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior along Hwy. 61, a half-dozen miles down the lake from Grand Marais, Minn. You ...

Red-throated loons — a type of water bird that ancient Gaels relied on to predict the weather — are so avoidant of offshore wind turbines in the North Sea that their numbers declined significantly in ...

MUCH opportunity for watching ocean life under the widely varying conditions and relationships of the water and air is afforded by the research vessel Atlantis, which spends a large part of the year ...

California’s largest inland body of water is in trouble. Inflows to the Salton Sea have decreased, salinity is growing, the ecosystem is collapsing, and neighboring communities are suffering high ...

RODEO BEACH, Calif. (KGO) -- An alarming number of dead or dying sea birds are washing up on Bay Area beaches and bird rescue centers say they're being inundated with a particular species. ABC7 News ...

Black and white sea birds that are sometimes mistaken for tiny penguins are appearing on shore in larger than normal numbers along the Central Coast this July. Wildlife experts rescued dozens of the ...

In a general context of climate change, researchers have revealed the impact of ocean cycles, such as the Pacific decadal oscillation and El Niño, on the survival of the Nazca booby. Their research ...

Tim Bradley crunched across a broad beach made of dead barnacles and fish bones. He bent down and stirred green slime, tinged with brown foam at the western edge of the vast lake unfurled before him.

The toxic algae bloom spreading domoic acid across the Southern California coast has not only poisoned sea lions but also the birds flying above the waters. Two pelicans stranded in Dana Point and ...