After a years-long multi-agency effort to eradicate invasive rats on Wake Atoll, ecosystems are already showing signs of ...

Mercury released into the oceans affects marine environments worldwide. Traditionally, its distribution and quantity have ...

Five seabirds and two California sea lions were successfully released back into the wild after receiving weeks of intensive ...

Seabird blood reveals a global map of ocean mercury pollution, with higher levels in key regions raising concerns.

Mice are breeding out of control and eating seabirds on Marion Island. The Mouse-Free Marion project plans to eradicate the rodents with rodenticide. The project needs to raise $25 million in funding ...

Animals that cross borders often encounter conservation systems that stop at them. Migratory species move through ...

One eagle fights another for a midshipman fish in a behavior called kleptoparasitism. Deborah Freeman via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Thieving on the high seas comes with many dangers. For the ‘pirate ...

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An albatross sits on the surface of the water, albatrosses spend 95% of their lives soaring above the water, only returning to land mate. They can go years without seeing land. By harnessing the power ...

To raise awareness of the importance of seabirds to people and the ecosystems we depend on, a new article looks at something that most of us find off-putting: their feces. The researchers say that the ...

An international collaboration has found that hazardous chemicals were detected in plastics eaten by seabirds. This suggests that the seabird has been threatened by these chemicals once they eat ...