Scientists Celebrate as Endangered Sea Stars Reappear Along California Coast ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Dive beneath the surface along almost any stretch of California's coast and you enter a different world ...

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins. But how ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins. When ...

Northern California’s kelp forests have been in steep decline, with an estimated 95% loss of canopy since 2014. NASA and USGS Landsat analysis shows Northern California’s kelp canopies’ rapid decline ...

Marine scientists at UC Santa Barbara have found that disturbances to giant kelp forests have a major influence on their net ...

Historical analysis shows that the marine mammals likely kept some of California’s kelp forests growing over the past 100 years. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 23, 2024 12:00 PM EST Add Popular Science ...

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First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins ...

Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...

Kelp forests are a crucial California marine ecosystem. From kelp’s floating canopies to its “holdfast” roots, the giant seaweed — algae, actually — supports greater biodiversity and sequesters more ...