Dive beneath the surface along almost any stretch of California’s coast and you enter a different world entirely. Towering ...

Stretching along South Africa’s rugged coastline lies one of the planet’s most extraordinary yet little-known ecosystems: the ...

"Most people never get to see what exists beneath the surface." ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

While most people know the world’s coral reefs are in trouble, few know that cold water kelp forests have declined by 50% ...

The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Priya covers the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Using mathematical models, researchers have been able to ...

When Salomé Buglass was studying underwater mountains in the Galapagos, the marine scientist came across something she didn't expect. "I see these tall, green things just swaying from one side to the ...

Along the Monterey Peninsula, “urchin barrens” with no kelp (foreground) are interspersed with remnant patches of kelp forest (background). (Photo by Michael Langhans) In 2019, researchers found a ...

Ripple, Splash and Tidy do their best to clean the Kelp Forest before it is too late. After putting some orange sea stars in the Kelp Forest where they don’t belong, Splash, Ripple, and Tidy must get ...

Muehleman is a professional charter sports-fisherman and a volunteer environmental activist with The Nature Conservancy and the American Conservation Coalition. He lives in San Diego. I spent my ...