The main conference room in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge was filled with curious and concerned community ...

Pacific Wildlife Care responded to a seabird called the common murre suffering from chemical burns caused by naturally-occurring oil in Morro Bay on March 7, 2025. Jim Winkle A penguin-shaped ...

These birds weren’t victims of an oil spill, however. They were caught in a natural process where oil seeps out of the seafloor — a phenomenon that intensifies during the spring, Masvidal said. Last ...