When we think about carbon sequestration and oxygen production, trees come to mind, right? This is only one part of the equation. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimate 50 per cent – 80 per cent of our planet’s oxygen is produced in the ocean.
Read MoreThe warming climate is putting environmental pressure on California forests that have towered over the Golden State for thousands of years.
Read MoreHow sea otters are radically changing the West Coast ecosystem 50 years after their return to B.C.
Read MoreCalifornia Sea Grant is pleased to announce six new research projects aimed at restoring California’s kelp forests.
Read MoreFood production is the top threat to nature—a regenerative system can change that
Read MoreA new sea urchin ranching concept — 'Urchinomics' — could be about to change the way several species' value chains operate, according to the company behind it.
Read MoreA new research project is delving into the favoured locations and condition of wild bull kelp in inlets in B.C.’s south coast, east of Campbell River.
Read MoreSpiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.
Read MoreMarine heat waves threaten kelp forests
Read MoreTwo decades since its creation the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park is overfished and overrun with sea urchins. Community groups are calling for urgent action to save the once abundant habitat
Read MoreMONTEREY, Calif. -- Kelp forests off the West Coast are being decimated at an alarming rate by marine heat waves linked to climate change, according to seven top marine scientists who just wrote an open letter about it that was published in Science magazine.
Read MoreA collaboration between Indigenous tradition and Western science may offer a way to bolster both Haida culture and the marine ecosystem intertwined with it.
Read MoreOn this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we'll rebroadcast our conversation with environmental scientist Laura Rogers-Bennett about the alarming decline of underwater kelp forests and the explosion of kelp eating purple sea urchins off of California's coast.
Read MoreFlorida has an underappreciated secret weapon to help heal its ailing reefs: prickly sea urchins.
This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration unveiled a $97 million rescue effort expected to take five to seven years. Part of the plan will include an unprecedented lab-breeding program to help revive long-spined sea urchins, a shimmering black-spined urchin, and one of the largest on the planet.
Read MoreAbout 90 percent of the bull kelp forests, home to fish, crustaceans and other marine life, have been devoured since 2014.
Read MoreWhere once there were forests of kelp in the ocean, there is only water. And sea urchins. A combination of warm water and other ocean conditions battered the bull kelp and allowed the purple sea urchins to run wild, gobbling up everything edible on the sea floor.
Read MoreWith few natural predators, green sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) have grown in numbers, grazed down large kelp forest areas in Northern Norway into urchin barrens. NIVA deployed three underwater cages outside Tromsø, Northern Norway during Autumn 2018, removed all urchins within these cages and followed the cages closely until Summer 2019.
Read MoreSan Francisco restaurateurs Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz may have been ahead of their time with their environmentally minded restaurant.
Read MoreTens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.
Read MoreA remarkable, collaborative effort to manage traditional food sources off the coast of Haida Gwaii is blending traditional knowledge and Western science to bring better balance to an out-of-whack ecosystem still reeling from the impacts of the fur trade
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