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

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

Researchers monitoring the unprecedented bloom of toxic algae along the west coast of North America in 2015 found record levels of the algal toxin domoic acid in samples from a wide range of marine ...

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

While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered the largest protein yet identified in ...

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

The Kitsap Public Health District has issued an advisory suspending shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish ...

While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered the largest protein yet ...

If you're partial to seafood you might already know to be cautious of food poisoning, but some marine organisms contain a toxin that can even cause memory loss.

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Oregon, Washington and other coastal states increasingly share a vexing problem with marine toxins that shut down harvests and put human health at risk. Beaches across our region were recently ...