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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
October 30, 2009
PORTLAND — Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don’t know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast.
The organism is a single-cell phytoplankton, or algae, called Akashiwo....
