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The tinned fish trend makes it seem like anchovies are bountiful, sustainable, and barely animals at all. None of that is true.

An analysis suggests that a commercially important mass migration of fish may have no real adaptive value.

William Jay Sydeman, once called “the most played composer of his generation” by the New York Times, died suddenly and peacefully in his bed at home in

Share Many seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere are struggling to breed — and in the Southern Hemisphere, they may not be far behind. These are the conclusions of a study, published May 27 in Science, analyzing more than 50 years of breeding records for 67 seabird species worldwide. The international team of scientists — led by William Sydeman at the Farallon Institute in California — discovered that reproductive success decreased in the past half century for fish-eating seabirds north of ...

These are the conclusions of a study in Science analyzing more than 50 years of breeding records for 67 seabird species worldwide. The researchers discovered that reproductive success decreased in the past half century for fish-eating seabirds north of the equator. The Northern Hemisphere has suffered greater effects from human-caused climate change and other human activities, like overfishing. Seabirds include albatrosses, puffins, murres, penguins, and other birds. Whether they soar or swim...

Scientific American Struggling Seabirds Are Red Flag for Ocean Health These sentinels of marine ecosystems point to the damage climate change, overfishing and other human pressures are causing Advertisement Seabirds are “sentinels” of ocean health. If marine ecosystems are suffering, the birds will be among the first to show it. Now a major study finds that seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere are already struggling. And without extra precautions, those in the Southern Hemisphere might be ne...

Some seabirds are struggling to raise young where the globe is most rapidly warming - in the northern hemisphere, according to a study published in the journal Science. The research was undertaken by an international team of 40 scientists led by Farallon Institute in California.

 E-Mail IMAGE: A common murre delivering an anchovy to its chick on Southeast Farallon Island, California. view more  Credit: Ron LeValley Many seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere are struggling to breed -- and in the Southern Hemisphere, they may not be far behind. These are the conclusions of a study, published May 28 in Science, analyzing more than 50 years of breeding records for 67 seabird species worldwide. The international team of scientists -- led by William Sydeman at the ...

How we can help coral and seabirds survive a warming world Reducing CO2 emissions is crucial, but there are hands-on ways to protect animals from inevitable warming. ByTim Vernimmen Email Global warming is not just increasing average temperatures on land, it’s heating up the oceans as well. As marine heat waves become more common, they are disrupting longstanding relationships between species that have come to depend on each other. Corals may lose the algae living inside of them, causing them...

 E-Mail In a study that uniquely evaluates marine ecosystem responses to a changing climate by hemisphere, researchers report that the fish-eating, surface-foraging bird species of the Northern Hemisphere suffered greater breeding productivity stresses over the last half-century than their Southern Hemisphere counterparts. The findings suggest the need for ocean management at hemispheric scales and underscore the importance of long-term seabird monitoring programs - some of which are already u...