BODEGA BAY (KPIX 5) — Despite the unrivaled beauty of the California coast line, UC Davis scientists say that just below the surface, the famous Kelp Forest is in serious trouble due to warmer ocean temperatures.
Read MoreA climate-related catastrophe off the California coast has resulted in the death of 90% of the kelp from San Francisco to Oregon as an explosion of ravenous urchins devours everything in sight.
Read MoreSea urchins love to eat kelp. Kelp loves to sequester carbon. Now sea urchin farmers are removing hungry urchins from kelp fields in California, raising them in captivity to fulfill the world’s hunger for sushi, and saving the kelp to do its important work to help the climate.
Read MoreUna empresa noruega de "cría en granjas de erizos" quiere recoger los equinodermos de la naturaleza, engordarlos y venderlos en restaurantes.
Read MoreA company wants to take urchins from the wild, then fatten them up for sale.
Read MoreA Norwegian ‘urchin ranching’ company wants to take the echinoderms from the wild, fatten them up and sell them to restaurants.
Read MoreCalifornia’s kelp forests are currently facing a major threat: deforestation.
Read MoreThis video clip is a short summary of the TV Tokyo program “未来世紀ジパング/Miraiseiki Zipangu” aired in March.
Read MoreKråkeboller beiter hardt på tareskogen, og mange steder er det oppstått rene «ørkener» på grunn av den hardføre pigghudarten.
Read MoreThe underwater battle being waged along our coast.
Read MorePurple urchins were not getting a lot of love at the cove across Highway 1 from Van Damme State Park on Saturday morning. Urchins have an insatiable appetite for kelp and very few predators, which leads to a near-barren underwater landscape.
Read MoreUnderwater kelp forests are being decimated by sea urchins. Here's how two different organizations are working together to restore them.
Read MoreSea urchin ranching concept Urchinomics has seen success at its semi-commercial trial in Japan, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda -- founder and CEO of the initiative -- told Undercurrent News.
Read MoreA colorful sea star has vanished from the Pacific Ocean off California and Oregon, and its nemesis, a voracious kelp-eating urchin, has run amok. And the consequences for the area’s marine ecology and California’s fishery has been catastrophic.
Read MoreIMAS scientists have conducted research on Centrostephanus and associated barrens along the Tasmanian coast for more than seventeen years.
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