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When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north.

Climate change is bringing potentially deadly dinoflagellate blooms to the Far North, posing a new risk to food security.

Changes in the northern Alaskan Arctic ocean environment have reached a point at which a previously rare phenomenon — widespread blooms of toxic algae