An estimated 1,100 people died in the extreme heat of June 2021 in British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. So did millions of sea creatures. While the record-smashing heat killed shellfish across ...

Tens of thousands of dead mussels carpet the rocks at Vancouver's Kitsilano Beach on July 6, 2021, just over a week after the peak of B.C.'s heat wave. It's now thought the heat primed coastal waters ...

"The scientist in me sees many things we can learn from this, but the nature lover in me is a little overwhelmed," said marine biologist Christopher Harley, who says "the extent of the die-off is ...

Amid the crushing summer heat wave that has slammed the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada, Alyssa Gehman, a marine ecologist who lives by the sea in Vancouver, B.C., walked down to the shore to go ...

A pilot study in France has pointed to a significant under-reporting of shellfish-related foodborne outbreaks. The objectives of the research were to quantify and describe the health impact of ...

New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) is calling on Kiwis to thoroughly cook the shellfish they collect this summer following an increase in cases of Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness in previous summer months ...