Geoducks can reach 14 pounds and live more than 150 years—so long that scientists use rings on the clams' shells to track climate change. Geoducks are broadcast spawners: several times a year, in late ...

Amid the crushing summer heat wave that has slammed the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada, Alyssa Gehman, a marine ecologist who lives by the sea in Vancouver, B.C., walked down to the shore to go ...

Record-setting temperatures have hit marine life in the Pacific Northwest hard. Some of the clams and oysters cooked to death in the intense heat. Shellfish farmers are now assessing how bad the ...