A study shows forever chemicals inside seabirds near Antarctica, proving pollution spreads globally and reaches even the most ...

Seabirds in one of the remotest parts of the planet are being exposed to a wide range of forever chemicals, scientists have ...

When different species of seabirds share a habitat with limited sources of food, they must differ in their feeding habits. This specialization is known by biologists as an “ecological niche”.

A bird that mates for life and flies over 6,000 miles for food, the albatross has seen profound population declines over the past several decades. It appears now as though a harbinger for its own ...

The population of the world’s seabirds has plummeted 70 percent in the past 60 years, a Canadian-Australian research team has found. The drop is equivalent to the disappearance of around 230 million ...

Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. A black rope had rubbed ...

As many as nine out of 10 of the world's seabirds likely have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Previously, scientists figured about 29 percent of seabirds had swallowed plastic, ...

Seabirds from 16 locations around the world have been found to consume plastic and have accumulated plastic’s chemical components in their bodies. Each year, 380 million tons of plastic are produced ...

This is an understandable strategy for birds that spend most of their time at sea where “there is literally nowhere to hide,” says Emily Shepard, a behavior ecologist at Swansea University in Wales.

Poor, dumb seabirds keep eating plastic, because it looks like food and there’s so freaking much of it that it really can’t be helped. That’s more or less the conclusion of a new study out Tuesday in ...