Bamfield

Chemicals present in a long list of household products have made their way into British Columbia’s sea otters, according to recent research. Analyzing the livers and skeletal muscles from 11 dead sea otters recovered from along the B.C. coast, a recent study found eight of the 40 samples tested detected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The research, published in the academic journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, identified PFAS in B.C. sea otters for the first time.

BC Hydro crews have begun assessing damage to power infrastructure in Bamfield following the Mount Underwood wildfire, but the full extent remains unknown as the fire zone is still unsafe to enter.

Observations this year from Huu-ay-aht territory see that volume of herring may finally be improving, as the First Nation is reporting a growing number of wild salmon migrating through its rivers.

A massive ocean wave that was tracked off the west coast of Vancouver Island in 2020 is now considered the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded, according to scientists at the University of Victoria.

Ferocious fish, not native to Canada, was netted and released in Alberni Inlet

214 grey whales stranded in the Pacific in 2019, and scientists are preparing for more deaths in 2020 because whales are emaciated and skinny.

A weak and hypothermic sea turtle is recovering after being rescued near Port Alberni.It’s the fourth olive ridley sea turtle on record in B.C. waters

We have visited this creek every summer for 10 years, since 2008, including every August, and we have never seen the water this low.

Questions have been raised after the 10th widest Douglas fir tree in BC BigTree Registry is cut down.

Environment Canada says these smoky conditions could remain until Wednesday.

Biologist Jackie Hilderling says four years of decline in B.C.'s sea star population is due to climate change warming local waters and making the animals susceptible to sea star-associated densovirus.

FioRito, Rebecca, Celeste Leander, and Brian Leander. "Characterization of three novel species of Labyrinthulomycota isolated from ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus." Marine Biology 163.8 (2016): 1-10.

A species of invasive seaweed is becoming very abundant and displacing native species.

Scientists are trying to determine why thousands of tiny seabirds called Cassin's auklets have washed up on the West Coast, all the way from B.C. to California.