State regulators say kelp loss, climate impacts and booming purple urchins leave the iconic species too depleted to reopen ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

Over the past few years, and again more recently, we have been hearing about a growing concern along our coastline. The once ...

Sea urchins and climate change are threatening Norway’s seaweed forests, but science is looking for solutions, as Vince ...

An international team is calling for a US $14 billion investment to protect and restore one of the planet's most valuable and overlooked marine ecosystems, kelp forests. New Zealand's first legislated ...

Kelp is essential to oceans, providing a habitat for numerous marine life and keeping the ocean clean by trapping carbon. It's also long been a part of Asian cuisine, but now a chef in Cape Town is ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

The pointy shell of sea urchins hides a remarkably complex neural network that resembles the brains of vertebrates, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes When it comes to taking hardcore ...

For years, Macklyn Cove was a land of the living dead. Located near Brookings along Oregon's south coast, the cove was once home to vast underwater kelp forests that supported species as small as ...