The cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated, multiplied and adapted to survive in the water. By Carl Zimmer In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and ...

Tiny organisms called algae can have an outsized impact on working waterfronts. While many benefit their ecosystems, others can cause devastating economic and ecological effects. University of Maine ...

For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths. Fur seals found dead last August on ...

Holidaymakers along South Africa’s West Coast are being met with unsettling scenes as patches of discoloured seawater, piles ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The County of San Diego is advising people not to eat locally harvested mussels, clams, scallops or oysters that were not purchased from a state-certified commercial ...