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Gannet Alpha oil spill 'threatens' sea birds - BBC News
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Gannet Alpha oil spill 'threatens' sea birds. Conservationists have said an oil leak near a North Sea platform poses a threat to seabirds. More than 100 tonnes of oil has leaked from the flow pipe connected to the Gannet Alpha platform. Shell UK has said it is an insignificant amount but the Royal Society for the Protection of ...
Hundreds Of Dead Seabirds, Sea Lions Wash Up In Southern ...
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Something disturbing has been washing up on Southern California beaches in recent weeks: dead and dying seabirds and marine mammals, numbering in the dozens. California resident Kyle Cory said this week he's been seeing “between six and 10 or 12” sick or dead sea birds every time he walks along ...
Guardian: North Sea birds dying as waters heat up | Environment | The Guardian
Until now their deaths have defied explanation. What caused hundreds of seemingly healthy seabirds to perish on the North Sea has baffled scientists since the discovery of their corpses on the Norfolk coastline this spring. Fears of a major pollution incident such as an oil slick were quickly dispelled.
Sea birds' taste for plastic traced to compound smell they associate ...
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Sea birds gobble up plastic because it has a smell that reminds them of food, scientists have discovered. Plastic debris poses a serious environmental threat to many kinds of marine life, including fish, turtles and birds. But until now the reason why some sea birds have such a voracious appetite for the stuff ...
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