Birds
Mass die-off on California beaches - seabirds, sea lions, dolphins affected
11:44 AM May 31, 2017 -8883- Alarming mass die-off on California beaches - Extremely high number of sick and dead animals - Seabirds, sea lions, dolphins affected - Experts: Never seen this many sick birds - How many have to die before somebody cares? (VIDEOS)
Brain-rotting toxin kills marine animals on California coast - mass deaths of sea lions, dolphins, birds
08:05 AM May 2, 2017 -8873- Brain-rotting toxin killing huge numbers of marine animals on California coast - Die-offs skyrocket over past week - Expert: It’s worst year we’ve ever seen - Mass deaths of sea lions, dolphins, birds - Officials warn outbreak is spreading (VIDEOS)
Alaska beaches covered with dead birds - others sick and unaware
01:13 PM Mar 29, 2016 -8796- Die-off in Pacific far worse than anything ever seen before - Expert: Alarm over what’s happening in ocean - Deaths puzzling gov’t scientists, I’ve never heard of such a thing anywhere in world - Reports: Beaches full of bodies… Countless carcasses - Official: We want to know if it’s related to Fukushima (VIDEO)
09:41 AM Feb 4, 2016 -8769- Pacific Rim: Bird die-off; stomachs empty; hundreds of thousands at risk (VIDEO)
Coyotes, butterflies, birds, fish, rabbits, gone
05:38 AM Jan 29, 2016 -8768- L.A. - Wildlife gone by gas disaster; birds, butterflies, rabbits, coyotes missing; fish in pond dead (VIDEO)
Murres, puffins, kittiwakes, gulls, shear-waters, whales, pinniped, sea otter, fish … dead on NW & West Coast beaches
03:00 PM Jan 13, 2016 -8761- Pacific Rim West-&-Northwest coasts … Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, California: Dead birds on beaches; also, complete reproductive failure, thick-billed murres, black-legged kittiwakes, horned and tufted puffins, glaucous-winged gulls, and sooty and short-tailed shearwaters; concurrent with whale, pinniped, sea otter, and fish mortalities (VIDEOS)
Sea birds starve to death in mass die-off
04:47 PM Oct 15, 2015 -8727- West Coast: Mass die off of seabirds - every bird seen withering away, starving to death, catastrophic molting (VIDEO)
No birds no butterflies
11:37 PM Oct 11, 2015 -8724- Fukushima: Dead zone - no butterflies, no birds - fewer species … targets U.S. (VIDEO)
12:16 AM Sep 15, 2015 -8711- Vast amount of dead birds in Pacific off U.S. coast, nothing will eat the bodies - no seals present - fish gone… all of them are starving - Animals acting weird, sick and weak, too weak to fly, too weak to run - Resident: We want to know if it’s from Fukushima (VIDEO)
Seals, whales, sea lions, otters, birds
07:42 PM Sep 4, 2015 -8706- West Coast animals. Alaska-to-California – whale disoriented; sea lions, seals, otters, birds disoriented, seizures; 30 whales tangle in nets; moose disoriented, swims in circles (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
10:30 PM Aug 8, 2015 -8693- Die-off of birds all over Alaska beaches, floating in Pacific - They seem to be starving - Record-breaking spike in rescues, dramatic increase - Deformed and abnormal animals reported (PHOTOS & AUDIO)
01:57 AM Aug 7, 2015 -8692- U.S. Gov’t: We don’t know what’s going on in Pacific - Many ill baby seals abandoned; Dozens of walruses found dead; dying whales, birds, fish (AUDIO)
10:23 AM Jul 28, 2015 -8686- AP: Unprecedented deaths along U.S. Pacific coast - Mass die-offs of mammals, birds, fish (PHOTOS) (AUDIO)
03:51 PM Jun 22, 2015 -8662- West Coast marine life affected in ways never seen before - unusual increase in dolphin, sea lion, and seabird deaths (VIDEO)
08:43 PM Jun 20, 2015 -8661- Pacific Rim/West Coast: Ten giant whales dead off U.S. coast - mass die-off of walruses and seabirds nearby (AUDIO)
No baby birds survive on islands - usually over 15,000
10:36 PM Jun 11, 2015 -8655- Senior Scientist: Birds in bad condition off West Coast - No baby birds survive on islands, usually over 15,000 - Extremely poor breeding success… they didn’t even try - Before and after photos show beaches deserted (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
Birds blind - unable to fly
01:04 PM May 12, 2015 -8631- Fukushima: Mutations begin; birds blind, unable to fly 4 years after Fukushima - in contaminated areas (VIDEO)
Seals & walruses suffer
01:26 PM May 6, 2015 -8627- U.S. university testing animals in Pacific for Fukushima radiation - bodies riddled with tumors, eyes bleeding, covered in lesions - Some are missing testicles, eyeballs - Skin disintegrates, peels off, turns yellow - Mammals affected by diseases never seen in species (Photos)
-8627.1- also see -[1] Baby gray whales & 55 dolphins found dead in Baja California; Corpses of sea lions, birds, sea turtles rot http://enenews.com/13-baby-gray-whales-55-dolpins-found-dead-west-coast-corpses-sea-lions-birds-sea-turtles-decomposing-rash-dead-humpback-whales-oregon-fear-whales-encountering-radiation-hot-spots-whale-watchi
New Mexico St. Univ., Mar 15, 2015 (emphasis added): What’s Killing Baja’s Marine Animals? Dead gray whales and dolphins. Corpses of sea lions, birds and sea turtles decomposing on the beach. Since the beginning of the year, the coasts of Baja California have been the scene of multiple discoveries of dead marine animals. The latest find was reported last week… 55 dead dolphins and 4 sea lions… [The gov't will] probe the reasons for the mysterious deaths. In mid-January… 550 dead sea birds and 4 dead sea lions near San Felipe. Another zone of mystery surrounds the Laguna Ojo de Liebre… where 150 dead sea turtles were discovered at the end of January. About two weeks earlier, 14 lifeless gray whales (13 babies and 1 adult) and 16 dead sea turtles were found in the same area… Mexican authorities hypothesized that sea turtles… could be succumbing to hypothermia [and] baby gray whales were dying from lack of nourishment… [They] migrate to Baja California from northern Pacific waters…
AP, Feb. 1, 2015: Cold temperatures are suspected of killing some 150 sea turtles found in a lagoon of Mexico’s Baja California [the] environmental protection agency said [warm waters are blamed for record-setting deaths of California sea lions and West Coast sea birds ]… it would be difficult to determine the exact cause of death… investigators also would try to determine whether some sort of contamination might have played a role. In mid-January, federal inspectors found the bodies of 14 gray whales.
Fox News, Jan 15, 2015: Four sea lions and 550 birds found dead [in] Baja California probably died as a consequence of climate change, Mexico’s Profepa environmental protection agency said… Changes in the ocean water temperature are forcing schools of fish to swim deeper
NBC San Diego, Mar 20, 2015: A dead gray whale was found floating in the waters near Torrey Pines State Beach Thursday morning, San Diego Lifeguard officials confirmed. The young whale [was] approximately 15 to 20 feet in length - Reporter: Because it does not look like it had anything to do with humans, they believe that maybe the whale just got sick and died.
California Gray Whale Coalition, Nov. 2014: The coast’s winter whale watching season brings real fear for visiting humpbacks and grey whales encountering radiation hot spots along West Coast waters as they migrate to and from Alaska and Mexico. The central Oregon coast’s whale watching training features more than 100 volunteers at 25 whale-watching sites… this year’s whale-watching volunteers have been trained in the dangers of radiation… there has been a rash of dead humpback whales washing-up along central Oregon…
KION, Jul 3, 2014: A 35-foot-long humpback whale has washed up dead on a Central California beach… cause of death has not been determined. - Reporter: Researchers say the amount of whales found in distress this year is significantly more than in previous years… They usually only get 5 reports of entangled whales in an entire year. This year there have already been 8.
ABC San Francisco, May 22, 2014: Dead Baby Humpback Whale Washes Ashore… They’re actually endangered, said Sue Pemberton with the California Academy of Sciences. So it’s really important, every single one that dies, it’s important to know why.… unlocking the mystery of why she died so young, only half the size of a full-grown humpback.
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Sea lions, elephant seals, blue whales, seabirds
09:36 AM Apr 10, 2015 -8607a- Officials: Such a bizarre thing off California coast - we’re seeing multiple aborted fetuses every day - 100,000s of seabirds that nest in area now missing - Huge, unprecedented die-off like we’ve never seen - Many baby seals die after mothers lead them to a cliff edge… brutal to watch (AUDIO)
Sea lions, turtles 13 baby gray whales, 55 dolphins, birds ...found dead
09:25 AM Apr 3, 2015 -8603- 13 baby gray whales, 55 dolphins found dead on West Coast - dead humpback whales in Oregon - corpses of sea lions, birds, sea turtles decomposing - Fear for whales swimming thru radiation hot spots (VIDEO)
Dead sea lions on beaches, babies eaten by birds
10:11 AM Feb 24, 2015 -8576- L.A., Malibu: Dead sea lions on beaches, families shocked - babies eaten by birds; calls about dying animals slow down 911 system (VIDEO)
Lesions prevent birds from eating, breathing
11:38 AM Feb 21, 2015 -8572- California coast: Epidemic; mass die-off; lesions prevent birds from eating, breathing (PHOTOS)
Mass die-off of seabirds on West Coast
11:43 PM Jan 23, 2015 -8548- One of largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded now underway on West Coast - Gov’t: I’ve never seen anything like this, ever - Experts: Just massive, massive, unprecedented … Strong possibility of it escalating to affect other species - Significant uptick in mass-mortality events in marine world
Birds dying of unusual cancers, rarely seen in wildlife
04:26 PM Jan 22, 2015 -8546- Gov’t: Sea urchins with insides empty, bare skeletons, and black lesions in Hawaii - Birds dying of unusual cancers, rarely seen in wildlife (PHOTOS)
12:17 PM Jan 21, 2015 -8544- Study: Fukushima plume spreads worldwide, far exceeding the hundreds of miles mentioned previously - 100 Quadrillion becquerels of Cs-137 released tops Chernobyl
02:48 PM Jan 20, 2015 -8543- California Coast: Mass starvation of seabirds (VIDEO)
Die-off of birds on entire West Coast
07:33 PM Jan 8, 2015 -8534- Cataclysmic die-off of birds on entire West Coast - Beaches covered with dead bodies - Professor: it’s tragic… never seen anything like this… We ignore it at our peril… Canary in the coalmine for us… Scrambling to figure out what’s going on with ecosystem (VIDEOS)
08:14 AM Nov 4, 2014 -8486- Mysterious Phenomena off U.S. West Coast: Fish disappeared, whales nearly absent, no krill, high rates of egg failure among birds - California Fishermen: There’s almost nothing there, just water
03:00 PM Oct 23, 2014 -8472- Pacific: Dead for thousands of miles between U.S. & Japan - Like sailing in a dead sea… everything’s all gone - Just talking about it makes me feel like I want to cry - No birds, no fish, no sharks, no dolphins, no turtles, nothing (AUDIO)
10:02 AM Sep 18, 2014 -8426- Fukushima radiation major threat to survival of baby birds - Immediate and worrisome impacts on marine wildlife discussed - More damage to come as radioactive material biomagnifies in food chain
Whales, dolphins, sea lions, birds - stranded, seizures, washing up dead
09:43 PM Aug 30, 2014 -8398- Surge in marine mammal strandings on U.S. West Coast - biggest fear is if this is everywhere along coast - whales, dolphins, sea lions, birds washing up in large numbers - thousands likely dead - violent seizures shown on news (VIDEO)
Birds falling from sky
May 3, 2014 -8368.5- also see -8211- ‘Marine Mystery’ in California: Toxic outbreak threatening marine life - Birds falling from sky, sea lions convulsing - Worst they’ve ever seen - Toxin hits record level, almost 1,000% above gov’t limit - Heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure (VIDEO)
Marine birds disappearing in Pacific Northwest – herring – Bluefin tuna
-8336- AP: Marine birds disappearing in Pacific Northwest - ecological shift, crashes in many species - herring problem worse than revealed; Mexico bans Bluefin tuna fishing
Abnormal blood in monkeys
04:13 PM Jul 27, 2014 -8335- Guardian: Abnormal blood in monkeys linked to Fukushima - Epidemic infectious disease could occur - cannot find other reasons except radiation - Concern for strontium-90 & other radioactive materials besides cesium - relevance to humans
Birds found with deformities never reported in 500,000 exams before Fukushima meltdowns from 3/11 – genetic mutations in flora & fauna
08:34 AM Jun 25, 2014 -8298- Emergency research underway in Japan after birds found with deformities - something unusual occurring inside their bodies - never reported in 500,000 exams before 3/11 - now observed at every site across country, some over 1,000 km from Fukushima (PHOTO)
-8298.1- also see: Fukushima twice as strong as Chernobyl when comparing species of birds found in both places - don’t know why they are doing even worse in Fukushima (VIDEO)
-8298.2- also see: The Australian: The devastating physical and genetic effects of Japan's nuclear disaster are revealed -- All mutant butterflies were caught far outside Fukushima evacuation zone
-8298.3- also see: Fairewinds Video: ‘Anomalies’ in plants and animals documented by Fukushima residents, some severely deformed - Scientists: Genetic mutations observed in Fukushima include trees with peculiar distortions, insect abnormalities, tumors in birds, more (PHOTO) Apr 13, 2014
-8298.4- also see: Expert: There’s just very few of the birds left in the high contamination from Fukushima plant, things are not looking good - Spider webs looked ‘strange’ (PHOTO) - Animals response to radiation over twice as bad as in Chernobyl - Implies effects are stronger in Fukushima (VIDEO) May 7, 2014
-8298.5- also see: Japan TV broadcast: Mutations in animals and plants after Fukushima - Scientist: Very few insects, only 2 birds (PHOTOS & VIDEO) Dec 4, 2012
-8298.6- also see: Former Japan TV News Anchor: The mutations have begun in Fukushima; Birds found blind, unable to fly - Magazine: Birds in tailspin 4 years after Fukushima… the proverbial canary in a coalmine - Professor: Birds with mutations popping up all over in contaminated areas (VIDEO) May 12, 2015
-8298.7- also see: Japan Reporter: Mutations increasing in Fukushima - TV: Strange things are happening to the plants and animals - Gov’t News Agency: Long list of mutated life forms reported (VIDEO) Jul 22, 2015
-8298.8- also see: Japan Times column: Nuclear mutations: Professor seeing ‘increase in negative effects’ from Fukushima since last year - Report of insect with leg growing from head (PHOTO) Dec 9, 2012
07:08 PM Jun 24, 2014 -8297- Washington State: Birth defect deaths hit record levels during 2011 - spiked 60% statewide - return to normal in 2012 - document lists Fukushima release along west coast of U.S. possible factor in birth defect cluster
-8297.1- also see: Japan: rise in birth defects for 2011 - University won’t publish data on malformed babies - after many years of doing so; not releasing figures for Fukushima, other prefectures 12:34 AM Jun 24, 2014
Squid, oyster, sardine, mackerel, pelican, sea lions, whales, mammals, birds, fish – sick or missing
03:23 AM Jun 17, 2014 -8287- Southern. California - Haven’t seen a squid, usually 10,000 lbs/day - crashes at oyster hatcheries - sardines, mackerel missing in areas - pelican sites deserted - sick sea lions - ultra-rare whales appear after decades - mammals, birds, fish in odd places
11:28 PM May 7, 2014 -8220- Few birds left in high contamination areas from Fukushima plant - spider webs strange (PHOTO) - animals respond to radiation over twice as bad as in Chernobyl - Implies effects are stronger in Fukushima (VIDEO)
Birds fall from sky, sea lions convulse - heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure
01:17 PM May 3, 2014 -8211- California: Toxic outbreak threatens marine life - birds fall from sky, sea lions convulse - heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure (VIDEO)
Fish, pelicans, sea lions, dolphins, whales, birds
09:34 AM May 1, 2014 -8207- SF Chronicle: Unbelievable hordes of fish near California coast; birds, sea lions, dolphins, whales, pelicans
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-8164- Fairewinds Video: Anomalies in plants and animals documented by Fukushima residents, some severely deformed - Scientists: Genetic mutations observed in Fukushima include trees with peculiar distortions, insect abnormalities, tumors in birds, more-[1] -[i](PHOTO)
-8164.1- also see: Japan TV broadcasts mutations in animals and plants after Fukushima - Scientist: Very few insects, only 2 birds (PHOTOS-[ii] & VIDEO) Dec 4, 2012
-8164.2- also see: Former Japan TV News Anchor: The mutations have begun in Fukushima; Birds found blind, unable to fly - Magazine: Birds in tailspin 4 years after Fukushima… the proverbial canary in a coalmine - Professor: Birds with mutations popping up all over in contaminated areas (VIDEO) May 12, 2015
-8164.3- also see: Japan Reporter: Mutations increasing in Fukushima - TV: Strange things are happening to the plants and animals - Gov’t News Agency: Long list of mutated life forms reported (VIDEO) Jul 22, 2015
-8164.4- also see: Expert: There’s just very few of the birds left in the high contamination from Fukushima plant, things are not looking good - Spider webs looked ‘strange’ (PHOTO-[iii]) -animals response to radiation over twice as bad as in Chernobyl - Implies effects are stronger in Fukushima (VIDEO) May 7, 2014
-8164.5- also see: Japan Times column on nuclear mutations: Professor seeing ‘increase in negative effects’ from Fukushima since last year - Report of insect with leg growing from head (PHOTO-[iv]) Dec 9, 2012
(above) Fairewinds Energy Education, Apr. 10, 2014 - Chiho Kaneko, member of the Board of Directors of Fairewinds originally from Iwate, Japan (at 11:15 in): It’s not just people who are sicker. I met a home gardener who lives in Kawamata, Fukushima, 30-miles from Fukushima Daiichi. She grows luffas, whose fruit is often dried to make bath sponges. Last year, with some trepidation, she used the seeds saved from the year before. She found flower buds directly growing out of the fruit. Some of her pole beans were abnormally gigantic. Near Fukushima city, another person saw a frog so severely deformed that, at first, it was difficult to tell that it was a frog, save for its hopping. These are true events described by people I met who took notes and photographs of environmental anomalies.
Asian Perspective Vol. 37, No. 4, Anders Pape Møller and Timothy A. Mousseau, Oct.-Dec. 2013: A careful observer who visits Chernobyl or Fukushima will quickly become aware of the peculiar distortions of tree growth, numerous abnormalities in insects, and tumors and cataracts in birds, all caused by genetic mutations induced by exposure to the radiation - radiation causes damage to DNA molecules (leading to mutations if not repaired) - We have known for more than eighty years that low-dose radiation has cytotoxic effects and causes mutations. - we looked at 373 effect sizes from forty-six different studies - they showed a statistically significant negative effect of radiation - on mutation, physiology, immunology, and disease. As one would expect, effects were stronger on plants, which are stuck in one place, than on animals that can move around - As the first scientists in both Chernobyl and Fukushima, we have performed fifteen published tests, of organisms ranging from plants and insects to birds and mammals in Chernobyl, that support the hypothesis that low-dose radiation disrupts development, and all fifteen studies show a higher degree of asymmetry in the more contaminated plots. - we have assembled effect sizes from all published studies of mutation rates from Chernobyl, in total 151 estimates of mutations in forty-five studies of thirty-three species ranging from bacteria and plants to insects, birds, and mammals, including humans The findings are robust in showing a general, strong overall mean effect size of radiation on mutation rates. - Mutations accumulate with time and across generations, so we may only be seeing the first stages of the negative public health consequences - for humans.
Fukushima: Insect with leg growing from head
(above) In 300km area from Fukushima plant, variety of mutated cicadas were observed. -Fukushima Diary
(above) Lamb found with leg growing from its head
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New Zealand - birds
-8129- Experts agree many species of wildlife and fisheries are endangered globally due to large release of radioactivity into ocean at Fukushima - Fukushima radiation entered New Zealand ecosystem?
-8129.1- also see: Birds return from Fukushima-area with troubling symptoms -- appear to not have been able to find food in North Pacific -- never seen birds in that poor of a condition come back to New Zealand
11:38 PM Jan 5, 2014 | 302
West Coast sardine crash - marine mammals, seabirds starve and suffer