Massive amounts of the mussels clinging to the rocky shores and cliffs of the Bodega Marine Reserve were cooked in the June heat wave.

Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) observed near King Cove

A range of wildlife-related events have been occurring this month in Shishmaref and other parts of Norton Sound.

"When we looked over the side of the boat, we saw clumps of mussels floating up the whole Tuksuk channel. No one has ever heard of something like this before."

A group that monitors shellfish toxin levels is warning Juneau residents not to consume shellfish from locations in the Auke Bay area.

Major sea lice epidemics have erupted on Atlantic salmon fish farms on Vancouver Island’s west coast over the last three months, according to industry, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and independent reports.

We did not see a single sea star in the Kachemak-side tide pools, and boulders we visit each year all looked a little vacant, with a lot of empty, critter-free space.

Hundreds of sea turtles have washed up dead along the southwest Florida coast as an ongoing red tide event persists in the waters. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has logged 287 sea turtle deaths since the virulent algal bloom started in October, the Associated Press reported.

The report on Wood Buffalo National Park says industry, dams, climate change and natural cycles are sucking the lifeblood from the vast delta of northeastern Alberta's Peace and Athabasca rivers

Regional monitoring program notifies shellfish harvesters of an upward trend in concentrations of PSP.

Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.

Rare observation of sea otter in Haro Strait, perhaps first since 2014.

Sea Star Wasting Disease has caused sea stars to die off since 2013. As of 2018, there are still no sea stars on Bishops Beach in Homer.

Scientists are unsure if warming temperatures are causing the bizarre invertebrates to spread.

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.

Sea star wasting syndrome, or disease as it has become known, hit Kachemak Bay hard in 2016, killing about 90 percent of sunflower and true star populations.

A swarm of jellyfish numbering in the hundreds washed ashore in the Sjáland area of Garðabær, a town just south of Reykjavík, yesterday.

Abundant slugs in Dillingham acting as a stressor to garden plants.

Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.

The colourful Portuguese man-of-war is more commonly seen in warmer waters. Their painful stings can be fatal to some.