Agence France-Presse: Standing on the icy shoreline, Dmitry Lisitsyn recalled the day when over 100 dying birds washed up on this beach, coated in a thick layer of oil and helplessly flapping their wings. “We believe there were several thousand birds killed in all,” said Lisitsyn, an environmental activist on Russia’s Sakhalin Island, located in the Pacific Ocean just a few dozen kilometres (miles) north of Japan. “In such weather few birds can make it all the way to shore covered in oil without …