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

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food ...

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

The whale remained on the beach Wednesday, and it was not immediately clear whether algae bloom toxins played a role in its death.

Whale sharks are migratory animals, arriving to an area when their favorite food, plankton, is in bloom and then moving on to ...

A minke whale that had been swimming in the Long Beach Harbor died from domoic acid poisoning, tests show. The poisoning is associated with the toxic algae bloom that has sickened and killed other ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists were in La Jolla Wednesday to investigate the carcass of a 55-foot whale that had likely been dead for days before washing ashore. “It ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of death for the small minke whale that was trapped for several days in a Long Beach harbor earlier this month, according to media reports. Officials from the Nat… ...

Whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals are washing up dead along the California coastline. A team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has collected more than 50 dolphins ...

A dead whale is stranded on the beach at Kirby Cove in Marin County, one of several whales that have been found dead in or near the San Francisco Bay over the last week, scientists said.

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning associated with a toxic algal bloom that has stricken many other sea creatures, according to ...