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For two years now, scientists, shellfish managers, and tribes have been working to understand how the heat dome that settled over the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 2021 affected the places where ...

Undergraduate students at Oregon State University assist in monitoring the intertidal zone on the Oregon coast (Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman). (CN) — Researchers from Oregon State University found the ...

The recent heatwave that swept the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada claimed many human casualties, including at least 486 sudden deaths in British Columbia. But when the thermometer reached an ...

Spanning nearly a quarter of a million kilometres, Canada’s coastlines are home to one of the toughest habitats for any creature to live in: the intertidal zone, a place where the ocean meets the land ...

Crashing waves and water temperature along rocky shorelines strongly influence the growth patterns of the yellowfoot limpet (Cellana sandwicensis) an intertidal species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands ...

Seaweeds are important foundational species that are vital both as food and habitat to many aquatic and terrestrial shore organisms. Yet seaweeds that cling to rocky shores are continually at risk of ...

In June 2021, the peak of an unprecedented heat wave coincided with extremely low tides in the Salish Sea, wreaking havoc on intertidal ecosystems. As a “heat dome” settled above the Pacific Northwest ...

Looking down over Moose Cove as Helmuth Lab researchers wait for the tide to drop in the early morning in Lubec, Maine Tim Briggs As Tim Briggs strolls along the beach in Tidal Falls, Maine, he spies ...