US researchers: warming seas may cause more disease
National Geographic, 11 Mar 2016.
A sea star disease epidemic of unknown magnitude decimated up to 90 percent of sea star populations in some parts of the Pacific Northwest between 2013-2014, and, while the epidemic has since slowed, sea stars are still dying. Read the full story at National Geographic.
A sunflower sea star. Photo credit: J. Brew, Creative Commons (http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278772)
