Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

Phyllis Clough was driving to the post office in the tiny Alaskan village of Old Harbor one summer afternoon when her lips went numb. Within minutes, her mouth was swollen and the numbness had spread ...

A collection of clams collected from Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is displayed on a wood plank. Clams around the Gulf of Alaska are suspectible to the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly ...

A three-year study of ancient clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest has led researchers, including three from Simon Fraser University, to make a discovery that could benefit coastal communities' food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A butter clam. (Photo by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) A butter clam. Butter clams are found from the Aleutian ...

Warm conditions in the waters surrounding the Alaska Peninsula have produced algal blooms that threaten the safety of food important to coastal residents, according to the first official report this ...