Critter-pocalypse

So what's with all these mass animal die offs recently?  Too much pollution?  Poison?  End of Days, turns out the Mayans were off by a year?  Oh, it actually happens all the time, localized all over the world.  These stories just usually fly (or spiral down into the ground) under the radar but for some reason the major news agencies picked up several of these events recently causing everyone to freak our unnecessarily, per usual.  Maybe it's just been slow in the news people find entertaining but at least doomsdayers are happy.  Whatever.  Rabble-B