Eric Scigliano @SeattleFlotsam is investigating mysteries. In a story for NOAA, he looks into an enigmatic illness of Pacific sea stars and work to identify and track the cause. Eric notes that one factor could be warm water, which also makes an appearance in his recent Crosscut story about odd oceanic gas plumes.
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