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Hurricanes that swirl in the north can pick up seabirds and trap them inland, delighting birders, but often spelling death for the birds.

Despite the torment they endure as chicks, these bullied birds grow up to be well adjusted adults.

Forty-two days into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, somewhere between 500,000 and 780,000 barrels of oil, possibly more, have contaminated the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.The biggest one happened in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War when Iraqi forces dumped an estimated 6-8 million barrels of oil from tankers and...

A small amount of oil is detected on North West Island, a breeding site for hundreds of thousands of seabirds and turtles.