Seattle’s new Waterfront Park development — a decade and a half and $800 million in the making — includes a rebuilt seawall.

The Liberals major concession to pro-environment crossbenchers has received mixed responses, as the salmon industry reacts ...

A bizarre and hilarious stunt where an ultra-realistic fake foot is used to stomp on sea urchins, blending shock value with absurd creativity.

Their disappearance led to unchecked sea urchin growth, which in turn destroyed extensive kelp forests—habitats called the "rainforests of the ocean" due to their biodiversity and importance for ...

More sunflower sea stars could help protect a vital ecosystem from ravenous urchins.

A new study identifies the cause of sea star wasting disease, offering hope the animals can come back and perhaps even help West Coast kelp forests recover.

A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered the culprit: a bacterium known as Vibrio pectenicida. The team ...

However, after pivoting to coelomic fluid, which Prentice described as “essentially sea water,” the researchers did trigger disease in healthy sea stars.

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...

A bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida may be melting sea stars along North America’s Pacific coast.

A team featuring Canadian scientists has, after years of testing, determined the cause of the devastating sea star wasting disease. The culprit is a bacterial pathogen called vibrio pectenicida ...