California volunteer divers are taking part in a pilot project to crush purple urchins, which have contributed to the destruction of 96% of the state's bull kelp forests.

Divers fight to save California's kelp forests threatened by warming ocean waters by Associated Press on YouTube. CASPAR, Calif. -- A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped ...

Scientists are protecting or expanding kelp forests in Baja California, Southern California, Oregon and Washington’s Puget Sound. Gina Contolini, ...

After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them ...

Scientists are protecting or expanding kelp forests in Baja California, Southern California, Oregon and Washington’s Puget Sound. Locally, Hughes is also restoring kelp at two sites in Mendocino ...

After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping.

Bull kelp, a bulbous algae that forms a canopy over the water’s surface closer to shore, gilds the West Coast from Alaska to central California. Underwater forests of giant kelp — a different ...

Scientific diver Morgan Murphy-Cannella holds bull kelp with a dark patch of reproductive spores as she surveys a reforestation project, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, near Caspar, Calif. Kelp forests ...

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CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save ...