Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp forests, an important carbon sink. The founders of a Newport startup have ...

With their roly-poly bodies, child-like eyes, long whiskers and tiny padded paws, otters are some of the most charismatic animals in nature. But while being cute doesn't serve much purpose in the wild ...

Christopher Cornwall receives funding from The Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington, The French Embassy in New Zealand, Mountains to the Sea Wellington, and ...

A new study from researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology found that saving kelp forests is not only good for the oceans — it’s good for the economy as well. In the study, which was ...

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...

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

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine’s rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...

DENVER/Aug. 16, 2023 — Morris Animal Foundation and Revive & Restore have jointly announced funding for seven new projects focused on genomic sequencing and biobanking to protect and manage wildlife ...

A new study uncovers a symphony of synchrony between the kelp forest and beach, with broader implications for the beach food web as the climate changes. The Santa Barbara Channel's kelp forests and ...