The neurotoxin domoic acid has been detected in an algae bloom off the coast for the fourth year in a row, and this one is ...

A toxic algae bloom is raging along the coast of Southern California, making sea lions, dolphins, and even whales sick. But ...

Learn more about an algae bloom that’s causing sea lions to act erratically, leading to a few cases of aggression.

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

SeaWorld San Diego says rescuers are currently treating nine sea lions that were poisoned with domoic acid; one of the marine ...

The cause of the ongoing beaching incidents is the harmful algae Pseudo-nitzschia, which produces domoic acid. Domoic acid is a neurotoxin that builds up in fish and marine mammals, leading to ...