due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease. In their absence, purple urchins surged in population and chewed through entire undersea forests of bull kelp, which are the foundation for a ...

Researchers hope to revive the population of sunflower sea stars in an effort to support kelp forests along the California ...

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 ...

Sunflowers, one of the world’s largest sea stars, have declined rapidly because of sea star wasting disease. They’ve lost more than 90% of their Pacific Ocean population since 2013. Sunflower sea ...

Due to sea star wasting disease, lower oxygen levels in seawater, and rising temperatures, starfish populations are at risk ...

due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease. In their absence, purple urchins surged in population and chewed through entire undersea forests of bull kelp, which are the foundation for a ...

96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...

(Photo by Steve Lonhart) The concurrent decline of kelp and the increase in visible purple urchins occurred at the same time that sea star wasting syndrome decimated 20 species of sea stars ...