NZ’s first marine reserve is turning 50 – the lessons from its recovery are invaluable – Conrad Pilditch and Simon Francis Thrush

New Zealand’s first marine reserve, established 50 years ago at Te Hāwere-a-Maki/Goat Island, has transformed rocky reefs ...
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From Forest to Sea: Animals You Didn’t Know Could Swim

When you think of great swimmers, animals like dolphins, fish, or penguins probably come to mind. But the animal kingdom is ...

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 ...
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Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | The theory of the Kelp Highway

"If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to the tip ...

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 ...

Australia's protected marine habitats defenseless against climate change by 2040

New research has found that even Australia's most protected marine habitats are likely to suffer extreme ocean impacts by ...