Oregon State University biologist and diver Sarah Gravem motors past Sitka on her way to a kelp forest she is monitoring. (Photo by Jake Metzger) A few weeks ago, Sarah Gravem lowered a “ravenous, ...

A few weeks ago, Sarah Gravem lowered a “ravenous, terrifying predator” from her boat down to the ocean floor off Sitka. Then she released it. In a slow-motion drama, sea urchins fled as a pizza-size ...

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 ...

Kelp forests provide an estimated value of $500 billion to the world and capture 4.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from seawater each year. Most of kelp’s economic benefits come from creating ...

CASPAR, Calif. -- A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...

Although salmon farms help take pressure off wild stocks, the penned fish do produce a lot of waste which is concentrated at one location. A new farm is exploring a solution to that problem, by ...

Net positive? Paul Salomone, a fisheries management biologist, samples herring to help determine whether the fishery should be opened for the day. (Nathaniel Wilder) On a drizzly March afternoon in ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. Fish Reef Project founder Chris Goldblatt has made it a mission to care for the ocean. "The ocean has given me ...