Already, the new kelp is helping the ecosystem show glimpses of its former self. During a recent dive, a plump sunflower sea ...

Thousands of sea cucumbers have washed up on the beach in the Oregon coastal town of Seaside thanks to a combination of heavy ...

While many of the fish, cetaceans and other more conspicuous or “charismatic” animals have been well studied, a whole world ...

Feeding a giant sea creature to my savage pet fish, and it killed it. Shrapnel from Marines anniversary demonstration ...

The former romantic partner of Feeding Our Future’s founder has been charged with tax crimes after allegedly not adequately reporting more than $1 million in pay he received for construction work for ...

Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast's iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...

On a dark, drizzling January evening in 2014, Alyssa Gehman headed out to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state to catch the midnight tide. There, in the bitter winter darkness, she caught a sea ...

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From sea star wasting disease, more than 90% of the sunflower sea ... Removing the kelp alters light levels below, leading to changes such as turf algae growth in place of filter-feeding invertebrates ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...