Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sunflower sea star can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, from Alaska ...

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 ...

THERE HAS BEEN A SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH AND A LOCAL MARINE BIOLOGY LAB PLAYED A KEY ROLE. THE "SUNFLOWER STAR LAB" IN MOSS LANDING IS REPORTING ADVANCEMENT IN WHAT IS CALLED "SEA STAR CRYPTO ...

It is always enlightening to hear from a marine scientist and underwater expert. The insights from Ed Parnell shared in the La Jolla Light article “‘An eco-disaster’: Kelp forests disappearing off the ...

An international team of scientists recently announced a major breakthrough in understanding sea star wasting disease, a mysterious epidemic responsible for decimating sunflower sea stars (*Pycnopodia ...

Visitors and divers at the kelp forest habitat at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has ...

New research finds that Marine Protected Areas can boost the recovery of globally important kelp forests following marine heatwaves. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society’s ...