Animal care staff at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center nursed the 13 pelicans back to health as a domoic acid poisoning ...

After being poisoned during a toxic algal bloom earlier this year, a flock of brown pelicans returned to the wild on Wednesday morning. KTLA 5 Orange County Bureau Chief Chip Yost reports. () ...

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

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the ...

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

The maintenance worker who found the sea lion at approximately 7:30 a.m. called North Bay Animal Services, which guided the animal into a trailer using herding boards along with the help of a mall ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Domoic acid can accumulate in fish without the organism itself becoming ill. At low levels, domoic acid exposure can cause persistent short-term memory loss, seizures and can in some cases be ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal ...

Domoic acid is a potent neurotoxin produced by several species within Pseudo‐nitzschia, and its presence in marine food webs poses significant threats to wildlife and human health.

Although domoic acid algae blooms have occurred for the past four years, with the previously worst outbreak in July 2023, this toxic algae bloom is the first attributed to the death of two whales.