A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, ...

A new outdoor exhibition launched in Tromsø, Norway, alongside the Sørsjetéen jetty aims to bring public awareness toward ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Oriana Poindexter is a marine scientist with an extensive background in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving ...

Divers along the Pacific coast once had ample opportunity to glimpse a now-rare undersea treasure: a sea star so massive, its two dozen arms could span more than 3 feet across. These manhole ...

PACIFIC GROVE – Search crews using dive teams, drones and rescue boats returned to the waters off Lovers Point on Monday for a second day looking for a swimmer likely attacked by a shark—before ...

Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean ...

Over the past few years, and again more recently, we have been hearing about a growing concern along our coastline. The once abundant kelp forests of Monterey Bay are thinning, shrinking or ...

PACIFIC GROVE – The bull kelp forests of the Pacific Coast began to decline in 2013. A perfect storm of events —a climate-induced marine heatwave, a strong El Niño season and the explosion in ...

Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future The Palos Verdes Kelp Forest Restoration Project ...

Sonoma State University kelp researcher Rachael Karm holds up a growing blade of bull kelp at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News) BODEGA BAY, Calif. (CN) ...

For years, Macklyn Cove was a land of the living dead. Located near Brookings along Oregon's south coast, the cove was once home to vast underwater kelp forests that supported species as small as ...