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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...