Dillingham gardeners say that an uptick in slimy pests in recent years is making growing greens more difficult.

The Common Rock Crab has begun to grow rapidly in number around Icelandic shores. It was first seen in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland, in the year 2006. This summer, it has reached Eyjafjörður in North Iceland.

Record numbers of the potentially-fatal Portuguese man o' war have washed up on the Cornish coast, according to conservationists.

A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more 'losers' than 'winners' over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. The results are published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week.

For centuries, marine species have moved around either by hitching ride on the hulls of ships or as stowaways in ballast water. In many instances, species have been deliberately introduced for aquaculture or other commercial purposes.

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.

Tube-Dwelling Worms on Seldovia Beach

Black slugs are impacting native plants in the Chugach Forest and may be spreading elsewhere.

Pyrosomes were first seen on the Oregon coast in 2014 and every year since. Recently they have been reported in Washington, BC and Alaska. These weird organisms that resemble large pink thimbles, could signal really big changes in the marine ecosystem.

The smallest California cuke I have found.

Drifting throngs of pyrosomes, jelly-like, glowing organisms native to tropical seas have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska this year, baffling researchers and frustrating fishing crews.

Squid are occasionally found in the area, but not very often.

Several dozen worms were observed during a Beluga hunt in Norton Bay.