In March 1967, the super tanker Torrey Canyon struck rocks, spilling 117,000 tonnes of oil into the Cornish Sea. It was the biggest environmental disaster of its kind; up to 75,000 seabirds died. Now a new disaster jeopardizes the birds: climate change. The burning of fossil fuels, rather than their spilling into the sea, has caused an increase in the ocean's temperature, threatening to have the greatest ever impact on the seabirds of the British Isles.
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