Hammering urchins among new strategies to help Oregon's kelp forests bounce back

Oregon has lost two-thirds of its kelp forests since 2010. Efforts to remove hundreds of thousands of purple urchins might ...

Art created with kelp is the ethereal focus of a new Catalina Island exhibit

THINKING ABOUT CATALINA ISLAND... can summon many animals, plants, and natural wonders to mind — the flying fish might be the ...

Report calls for $14 billion investment to protect and restore kelp forests worldwide

An international team is calling for a US $14 billion investment to protect and restore one of the planet's most valuable and ...

To Get the Story, a Land-Loving Journalist Had to Dive Deep

A climate reporter wanted to follow scientists into the Mediterranean Sea. First, he had to learn to scuba dive.
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12-foot skeleton (temporarily) haunts California aquarium’s giant kelp forest

SAN DIEGO — A California aquarium‘s Halloween spirit runs deep – 12 feet under, to be exact. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography added a fake skeleton from Home Depot to its ...