Since its collapse, California’s sunflower sea star population hasn’t meaningfully bounced back on its own. But in recent years, major strides have been made in breeding the animals in ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

Alyssa Gehman is seen diving in the Burke Channel along B.C.'s Central Coast and making notes on sea stars there. Around 90% of the sea star population along North America's West Coast was wiped ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

But a tip from some divers looking for rockfish on B.C.'s central coast set off research that could help the recovery of the Pacific coast's sea star population. Gehman said divers with the Central ...