Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

Loading YouTube content The marine scientist from environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy explains that a dramatic rise in sea urchin numbers has decimated the golden kelp forests that ...

Despite their consumption of the largest urchins, the sea otters alone could not control urchin populations. Sunflower stars play an integral role in these kelp forest communities by preying upon ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

A regenerative fishery and kelp restoration project launched by Norwegian ocean tech company Ava Ocean has received official ...

In their absence, the sea urchin population proliferated. Sea urchins eat kelp, and the explosion in their population greatly diminished kelp forests, which provide critical habitat and nutrition for ...

To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars ... Urchins to Help Corals Resist Algae Invasion Watch a Colorful Sea Urchin Hitch a Ride on a Crab Watch a Colorful Sea Urchin Hitch ...

Below the ocean surface, there’s another type of forest is in danger: the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has ... is to identify an urchin using machine ...

The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

A southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) foraging on a purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Image by Morgan Rector. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!