A sea star wasting disease event, beginning in 2013, reduced the global population of sunflower sea stars by an estimated ninety-four percent. In Northern California, the disease killed 99.2% of ...

EUREKA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to change the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, from ...

EUREKA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, reclassifying it ...