A garibaldi swims in the shallows of Casino Point Dive Park on Catalina Island. Small bubbles trail upward, tickling my nose as cold seawater seeps into my gloves. I try to focus on the black fins of ...

MONTEREY — On a recent Saturday morning, scuba divers Keith Rootsaert and Dan Schwartz splashed into the ocean just east of Old Fisherman’s Wharf, the chilly water swallowing the sounds of Monterey ...

San Diegan Oriana Poindexter, a marine scientist and photographer, brings together art and science in her latest exhibition, ...

I took up skin-diving at just the right time. A few years earlier and face masks had not been invented. A few years later, and the kelp was gone. It seems like just a few years ago that a vast kelp ...

We’re experiencing the effects of a rapidly changing climate locally and throughout the country, including our devastating state wildfires, increasingly powerful hurricanes, and the recent ice storm ...

California’s underwater kelp forests are in trouble. A combination of climate change and hungry purple sea urchins have decimated these vital forests. But the Monterey Peninsula has a kelp forest ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...

While the marine heatwaves killing the kelp ecosystem were alarming on their own, the researchers have discovered a new ...

CAMANO ISLAND, Wash. — It is one thing to study the forests on land, but it's an entirely different thing to study the "forests" of the sea. "When we think about forests, most of us are thinking about ...