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In first-of-its-kind research, NOAA scientists and academic partners used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean average—with the seafood supply in the crosshairs.

Warming ocean waters are an invitation to all sorts of pathogens with the potential to remake ocean life.

Rare hoodwinker sunfish, never before seen in Northern Hemisphere, washes up at Coal Oil Point Reserve

Veterinarians in California use tilapia skin to treat burns on bears injured during wildfires.

In other parts of the West, evacuation orders were lifted in Colorado and Montana towns threatened by wildfires

The likely culprit is a toxic algal bloom, fueled by warmer ocean temperatures.