On a recent expedition aboard the National Geographic Endurance, one diver explores the lush biodiversity in the Falkland ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment ...

On these dives, it is common to see California Sheephead, Kelp Base, Garibaldi, Sea Lions, Horn Sharks, Stingrays, and more (such as lobsters). The easiest way for visitors to get a glimpse of these ...

One study aims to establish how much fish rely on kelp forests during their juvenile stages, similar to how sea grass, mangroves, and oyster/coral reefs function as nurseries. Another study ...

the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an ...

Without these kelp forests, leafy seadragons are unable to camouflage or shelter and sea lions are forced to hunt in open waters, risking attacks from great white sharks and orcas. Scott's dual ...

Maine's kelp forests were devoured by a green urchin overpopulation in the 1980s and 1990s, but rebounded around the turn of the century. "We anticipated that with the rise and fall of the sea ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean Wise and the Kelp Forest Alliance are excited to release a first-of-its-kind guidebook to standardize the monitoring of kelp ...

At this unique facility, visitors can observe regional birds in the aviary, view an undersea kelp forest, or watch seals and Steller sea lions at play in the Rocky Coast exhibit. The Rocky Coast ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Norther ...

Now, the kelp is replaced by armies of purple sea urchins, a casualty of a vast kelp forest collapse that began in 2014. Fueled by a marine heat wave that year that scientists dubbed “the blob ...