When they make their first journey into the ocean, fledgling Atlantic puffins are prone to being stranded on land, imperiling them. For years, scientists have wondered what leads to these strandings.

They then set off scouting the 15-kilometer (9-mile) coastline for tiny, black-backed pufflings, the name for baby Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica). It’s a daily ritual for the Puffin ...

Artificial lights are luring Atlantic puffin chicks into towns, where they become stranded and are at risk of dying.

Every fall in Iceland, local residents throw baby puffins off a cliff. It sounds cruel, but it's actually part of a conservation strategy. These "Puffling Patrols" are actually helping to mitigate ...

The row was triggered when Britain barred EU fishermen from catching sand eels in English and Scottish waters last March ...

The RSPB is hoping that an EU challenge to overturn a sandeel fisheries ban in the North Sea will be withdrawn as it looks to ...

The EU and the UK is taking part in an arbitration hearing in The Hague in a dispute over the UK ban on sandeel fishing in ...

The EU and Britain go to court at the Hague on Tuesday over a UK ban on the fishing of sandeels, a tiny fish celebrated by ...