From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
For the last year and a half, sea stars all along North America’s Pacific coast – from Baja California all the way to Alaska – have been withering away into nothingness. Today, researchers announced ...
The discovery of a rare starfish disease marks the first documented instance of Sea Star Wasting Disease in the Atlantic Ocean. Alex Romer UF/IFAS Snorkelers and divers in Palm Beach County were ...
Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, ...
In 2013, the sea stars of the Pacific had their own version of a Walking Dead-style nightmare. From Mexico to Alaska, otherwise healthy stars seemed to literally rot away before scientists’ eyes from ...
In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), ...
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