A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Nicknamed the "king of the kelp forest," giant sea bass are among scuba divers' favorite characters to spot off the ...

Sea otters are critical players in marine ecosystems and are a keystone species, meaning they have a profound effect on their ...

California's network of marine protected areas, including those off the Channel Islands, could see changes. Here's what to know.

At time when ocean reserve protections are threatened, new research shows bans on fishing made kelp ecosystems more resilient ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

But huge swaths of kelp forest along the California coast have died off in recent years amid severe marine heat waves and booming populations of sea urchins, which eat kelp. A pair of studies by ...

On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea ...