Starting in 2013, a mysterious sea star wasting disease sparked a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska. The epidemic has devastated more than 20 species and continues today. In this photo provided by ...

Researchers have traced the devastating loss of more than 5 billion sea stars—known colloquially as starfish—along the Pacific coast of North America over the past decade to a bacterial culprit. The ...

A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars — often known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Starting ...

Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than 10 years after it started. What took so long?

The loss of one iconic species, sunflower sea stars, unleashed a voracious eater of seagrass habitats and upended the coastal ecosystem. But the response has opened new business opportunities.

In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in the Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia, ...