B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

Since 2013, 90% of the Pacific population of these sea stars has been lost to the gruesome and disfiguring sea star wasting disease. The disease outbreak is being driven by climate change, with warmer ...

Caption Sea Stars from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest have been hard hit by Sea Star Wasting Disease. A survey by the UC Davis SeaDoc Society shows that in the Salish Sea, the impacts go beyond ...

But the ocean isn't as colourful now after a wasting disease tore through all varieties of sea stars along the North American ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

Key research and logistical questions need to be answered. A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish.