Climate change sparks Alaska farm boom 02:33. Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic's fast ...

While the Arctic might seem remote, what happens in this region is a bellwether for the global climate and the report makes clear that its impacts are far-reaching.

Arctic foxes, gyrfalcons, and polar bears prey on seabirds, and nutrients from their guano support plant communities that, in turn, support lemmings, ducks, geese, and a wide variety of invertebrates.

They join another five threatened seabird species already on the red list – the Kittiwake, Herring Gull, Roseate Tern, Arctic Skua and Puffin.

Seabirds are starving on the Alaska coast. ... In the past year, Arctic annual surface air temperatures were the sixth warmest since records began in 1900, the report found.

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just ...

Now, a new systematic review published in Frontiers in Marine Science is shining a light on the consequences of this pollution on the regions’ seabirds. Looking at more than 40 years of data, the ...

Like scenes out of Gary Larson's "Far Side" comic strip, scientists have discovered a tragicomedy playing out in deaths of Arctic seabirds. Some crash into each other in heavy fog. Others perish ...

Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic's fast-changing climate is threatening the ecosystems ...

In this June 2008 photo, puffins sit above murrs on the cliff on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Arctic seabirds unable to find enough food in warmer ocean waters are just one sign of the vast changes in ...