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The plucky puffin, endangered yet coping: Scientists link emergence of a hybrid subspecies to climate change

Studying puffin populations on three Norwegian islands, scientists have uncovered the first evidence to connect a large-scale hybridization to 20th-century warming trends. Yet a serious decline in the birds’’ genetic diversity does not bode well for their future.

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At Canada's largest Atlantic puffin colony, chicks are dying of starvation

Pufflings, the small chicks of the Atlantic puffin, are struggling due to a lack of food and warming ocean temperatures.
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Hundreds of puffins are starving to death because of climate change
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Hundreds of puffins are starving to death because of climate change

Hundreds of dead seabirds have washed up on an Alaskan island – all apparently starved to death because the warming waters they forage from contain less food.

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China fuels Southeast Asia’s clean energy and pollution at the same time

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