The Purple Urchins Don't Die
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Anglers are being reminded that the Northern California recreational red abalone fishery will remain closed for the next five years.
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As human activities have significantly increased greenhouse gas emissions, the ocean has moderated the effects, absorbing more than 90% of excess heat and approximately 30% of excess carbon emissions, sparing us from the extreme impacts we would otherwise experience on Earth.
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Australia’s "other" reef is brimming with biodiversity – and has battles of its own.
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When we think about carbon sequestration and oxygen production, trees come to mind, right? This is only one part of the equation. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimate 50 per cent – 80 per cent of our planet’s oxygen is produced in the ocean.
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The warming climate is putting environmental pressure on California forests that have towered over the Golden State for thousands of years.
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How sea otters are radically changing the West Coast ecosystem 50 years after their return to B.C.
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California Sea Grant is pleased to announce six new research projects aimed at restoring California’s kelp forests.
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Food production is the top threat to nature—a regenerative system can change that
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A new sea urchin ranching concept — 'Urchinomics' — could be about to change the way several species' value chains operate, according to the company behind it.
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A new research project is delving into the favoured locations and condition of wild bull kelp in inlets in B.C.’s south coast, east of Campbell River.
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Spiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.
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Marine heat waves threaten kelp forests
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Two decades since its creation the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park is overfished and overrun with sea urchins. Community groups are calling for urgent action to save the once abundant habitat
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A race against time to save the North Coast's bull kelp forests.
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MONTEREY, Calif. -- Kelp forests off the West Coast are being decimated at an alarming rate by marine heat waves linked to climate change, according to seven top marine scientists who just wrote an open letter about it that was published in Science magazine.
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A collaboration between Indigenous tradition and Western science may offer a way to bolster both Haida culture and the marine ecosystem intertwined with it.
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On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we'll rebroadcast our conversation with environmental scientist Laura Rogers-Bennett about the alarming decline of underwater kelp forests and the explosion of kelp eating purple sea urchins off of California's coast.
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Florida has an underappreciated secret weapon to help heal its ailing reefs: prickly sea urchins.
This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration unveiled a $97 million rescue effort expected to take five to seven years. Part of the plan will include an unprecedented lab-breeding program to help revive long-spined sea urchins, a shimmering black-spined urchin, and one of the largest on the planet.
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