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, ...

Picture yourself out at sea, gazing at the boundless expanse of ocean when suddenly, an enormous creature emerges from the ...

Nestled off the coast of Southern California, Channel Islands National Park is a hidden ... Its rocky shores and kelp forests are ideal for snorkeling and diving, while the island’s trails ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered ...

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

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

"Catalina is one of the eight Channel Islands and it's an area that is ... At stake is Catalina's kaleidoscope of life, from vibrant kelp forests to species still being discovered.

The sunflower sea star is seen in the Burke Channel, one of the fiords in B.C.'s Central Coast. The species eats sea urchins, which have been blamed for eating kelp forests along the coast and ...

Kelp Forest. Image by Serpae via Pixabay. Along the Pacific coastline, from Alaska to California, an underwater environmental ... Research in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands showed that areas with healthy ...

Gehman said divers with the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance returned from the Burke Channel off the central coast with ... which in turn allowed kelp forests to grow. The sunflower stars ...