"This is incredibly sad." Experts issue dire warning after thousands of marine animals wash up dead on coastline: 'It's devastating' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

Canandaigua Lake may look clear now, but warmer temps and recent weather pattern shifts have experts on alert for harmful ...

Currently six swimming beaches at state parks in New York are closed, according to the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales harvested for subsistence use by Alaska Natives on the North Slope show that ocean ...

Within the complex hierarchy of marine ecosystems, giant viruses are now being recognized as novel drivers of both ecological ...

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Nearly two years after one of the planet’s rarest fish began washing up dead in the Lower Keys, scientists investigating the ...

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

A flock of brown pelicans was released back into the wild near the Huntington Beach Pier. They had been nursed back to health ...

Is it safe to swim at the Jersey Shore? Here are the beaches with swim advisories due to high bacteria levels.