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| The starfish are dying, and no one knows why | Something is killing starfish up and down the West Coast and no one knows what. A mysterious illness that first appeared in June in Washington state has now spread from Sitka, Alaska, to San Diego. Starfish first waste away and then "turn into goo," divers say. Whatever is鈥 |
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| Scientists search for clues in sea star die-off | In their waterproof orange overalls, Hannah Perlkin and Emily Tucker look like commercial fishermen or storm-ready sailors. But they are biologists on their way to tide pools along a remote stretch of northern California coast. There they are searching for the cause of a mysterious and鈥 |
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| In the basement, insects by the thousands | |||
| Professor studies disease decimating local sea stars | |||
| Student from Black Diamond to assist with Sea Star study | From Alaska to Southern California, something is killing the West Coast鈥檚 sea stars 颅鈥 the ubiquitous, child-friendly favorite of tide-pool explorers everywhere 鈥撀 and nobody knows why. Yet. Benjamin Miner, as associate professor of Biology at Western Washington University, has鈥 |
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| Falling Stars: Starfish Dying From 鈥淒isintegrating鈥 Disease | When marine researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz traveled to Alaska this summer, they noticed something unsettling in the waters near Sitka: populations of starfish were losing their arms. Then other reports started pouring in to their laboratory: from Southern California鈥 |
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| Initiative 522 draws millions in out-of-state funding, but what do locals think? | Genetic engineering is a complex enough subject on its own, but when the topic is combined with the food we eat and feed our families, everyone seems to have an opinion. Throw in millions of dollars of out-of-state money meant to persuade voters one way or the other, and the task of鈥 |
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| Living her passion, a young woman dies | While her friends were obsessed with dolls or ponies, for as long as anyone can remember Dianna Hanson talked incessantly of her love of lions and tigers. |
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| 2011 草榴社区 grad killed in lion attack at Calif. animal sanctuary | A 24-year-old Western Washington University graduate who volunteered at Project Survival's Cat Haven in the foothills east of Fresno, Calif., was killed Wednesday when she was attacked by a 4-year-old male African lion in its enclosure. A co-worker tried in vain to draw the lion away鈥 |
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| Biology鈥檚 Marion Brodhagen to Discuss 鈥淭ainted Food: The Story of Aflatoxin鈥 Tonight at City Hall |