Birds such as puffins and murres have for a long time thrived on high-calorie, cold-water fish from Alaska saltwater. Since 2017, people in communities on the western Alaska coast have found more and more dead birds, says science writer Ned Rozell.
, a compilation of northern science by researchers from all over the planet — most of them doing work in Alaska — came out in mid-December at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Chicago.
Some of the changes are subtle and hard for us to notice. For example, daily temperatures being a few degrees higher than that day in the past. Others are more striking, like Alaska beachcombers finding seabird carcasses washed up in twos and threes where in years before they saw none. Birds such as puffins and murres have for a long time thrived on high-calorie, cold-water fish from Alaska saltwater. Since 2017, people in communities on the western Alaska coast have found more and more dead birds.In summer and fall, people from Izembek Lagoon to Point Hope reported about 450 carcasses of murres, puffins, auklets, shearwaters, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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