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Alaska birds suffered biggest die-off in recorded history in ‘Blob’ heat wave, new study says

The loss of an estimated 4 million common murres during the marine heatwave known as the “Blob” was the biggest bird die-off in recorded history, and seven or eight years later, the population has not recovered, biologists report. The findings, in a newly published study led by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Heather Renner, show that […]

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