We’d heard about the Channel Islands sea caves for years, but I honestly had no idea what to expect. I was about to bring my kids onto the open ocean, into dark caves, and wasn’t really prepared.

Earl and I went to California, and we were mugged. By whales. Three humpbacks. “Mugged” is the official term, meaning we were ...

Dubbed “the Galapagos of North America,” the Channel Islands are a string of unspoilt ... while below hide cast kelp forests ...

On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea ...

Of the 1,000 workers who heard that they would be able to return to their jobs, several included workers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park.

the captain announces over the radio, as we cut through the inky-blue Santa Barbara Channel back ... gliding through a kelp forest under a jetty. Before visiting the Channel Islands – situated ...

Chan can now return to his job surveying the Channel Islands kelp forests and tide pools, as part of the park’s mission to monitor and preserve these natural resources. Since he has been reinstated, ...

This isn’t your typical land forest! On Anacapa Island, a small volcanic island off the coast of California, US, is the Channel Islands National Park, host to a number of underwater kelp forests.

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...