Back in mid-October, a few dead tufted puffins began washing up along the shore of St. Paul island, an isolated and windswept stretch of land in the Philpot Islands in the North Pacific. Now, hundreds of dead puffins have been found.
A recent story in Digital Journal reported on the unusual die-off of Cassin's auklets on the Pacific Coast of North America. Scientists were said to be puzzled because the birds appeared to have starved to death. What was happening?
A scientific study has confirmed that crude oil, which entered the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, has entered the food chain.
