The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.



The Hill

Washington

District of Columbia

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Ocean heat killed half of population of Alaskan bird species: Report

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- About half of Alaska's common murres, some four million birds, died as a result of the marine heat wave, scientists have found. Read full story

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Malaysia

Ocean heat wipes out half specific seabirds around U.S. Alaska: study

Around four million half-commoners were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population shows no signs of recovery, according to new research. The first evidence was feathered bodies being taken to Alaskan beaches. They were common murres, black-and-white seabirds that normally spend months away from land. But in 2015 and 2016, authorities counted 62,000 emaciated bodies, from beaches in California to Alaska.

Cerca de quatro milhões de meiros-comuns foram mortos por um efeito dominó de mudanças no ecossistema, e a população não mostra sinais de recuperação, de acordo com uma nova pesquisa As primeiras evidências foram os corpos com penas sendo levados às praias do Alasca. Eram common murres, aves marinhas de coloração preto e branco que normalmente passam meses longe da terra. Mas em 2015 e 2016, autoridades contabilizaram 62 mil cadáveres emaciados,…

Efeito dominó: Aquecimento do oceano exterminou metade dessas aves marinhas ao redor do Alasca; entenda

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Roberto Irineu Marinho

Brazil

Domino effect: Ocean warming wiped out half of these seabirds around Alaska; understand

Scientists have noticed an increase in marine heatwaves, which are periods of warmer-than-usual ocean waters.

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The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.

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Single heat wave wiped out millions of Alaska's dominant seabird

Researchers have reconstructed how four million guillemots starved to death ten years ago due to a marine heatwave. To date, the population has not recovered.

Forscher haben rekonstruiert, wie vor zehn Jahren vier Millionen Trottellummen aufgrund einer marinen Hitzewelle verhungert sind. Bis heute hat sich der Bestand nicht erholt.

Vier Millionen Seevögel verhungert

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Upper Bavaria

Bavaria

Germany

Four million seabirds starved to death

by Issam AHMEDThe common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.A study published Thursday in Science reveals that a record-breaking marine heat wave in the northeast Pacific from 2014 to 2016 triggered a catastrophic population collapse, wiping out four million birds -- about half the species in the region.Strikingly, they h…

Raw Story

John K. Byrne

Michael Rogers (publisher)

Seabird colonies were halved, according to a study, in what will be one of the greatest documented mortality phenomena in vertebrate animals. The population has not yet recovered.

Colónias da ave marinha ficaram reduzidas a metade, de acordo com estudo, naquele que será um dos maiores fenómenos documentados de mortalidade em animais vertebrados. População ainda não recuperou.

Quando uma onda de calor marinha matou quatro milhões de aves no Alasca

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Sonae

Portugal

When a marine heatwave killed four million birds in Alaska

Phys.org

United Kingdom

Eight million guillemots populated the coasts of Alaska, then the sea became unusually warm. Within a few years the bird population halved. There is no improvement in sight.

Acht Millionen Trottellummen bevölkerten die Küsten Alaskas, dann wurde das Meer ungewöhnlich warm. Innerhalb weniger Jahre halbierte sich die Vogelpopulation. Eine Besserung ist nicht in Sicht.

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