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Warming Oceans Linked To Increased Sea Star Deaths

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Bill Radke speaks with University of Puget Sound biologist Joel Elliot about his recent study that links a virus known as sea star wasting syndrome that is killing millions of sea stars along the West Coast with warming waters.

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