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Average sea surface temperatures were 4.2 degrees above the long-term averages from before 2012, when ocean 'heat waves' became commonplace, continuing changes in the gulf ecosystem.

For all the escalating climate-related threats to iconic and commercially valuable marine life in the Gulf of Maine, scientists say there is one creature we should especially keep our eye on — a barely visible creature that helps whales, puffins and cod survive: the zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus.

Ocean warming is having effects throughout the food chain.

Decades of hard work restored Atlantic puffins and other seabirds to rocky islands in the gulf, but now puffins face threats from climate change.

ORTLAND, Maine -- The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather.

The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather. Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern gannets near the British Isles and&#x...

The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather.Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern...

Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern gannets near the British Isles and puffins off the Maine coast.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather. Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern gannets near the British Isles and puffins off the Maine coast.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds...