Biodiversity is key to kelp forest health
An ecosystem is made up of species, populations, communities, and a network of communities across a region.
Ecology
May 15, 2019
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News tagged with california coast
Off California coast, a bumper gray whale season
At the Aquarium of the Pacific, Michele Sousa is excited: the annual gray whale migration is in full swing, and it's a bumper year to view the lumbering leviathans off the California coast.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2011
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Gray whales starving to death in the Pacific, and scientists want to know why
From Baja California to Puget Sound, scientists are seeing signs that gray whales are in distress. And they have no idea why.
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2019
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Protected waters foster resurgence of West Coast rockfish
West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only 20 years ago have multiplied rapidly in large marine protected areas off Southern California, likely seeding surrounding waters with enough offspring to offer promise of renewed ...
Ecology
Sep 20, 2017
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Study: Salt marshes will vanish if seas keep rising and California keeps building
On one side, there's the rising ocean. On the other, rising buildings.
Environment
Feb 22, 2018
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California's endangered salmon population plummets amid new threat
They've been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat and even the flare of wildfires, but now California's endangered winter-run Chinook salmon appear to be facing an entirely new threat—their own ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2023
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Unusual warm ocean conditions off West Coast bringing odd species
Hawaiian ono swimming off the California coast? Giant sunfish in Alaska? A sea turtle usually at home off the Galapagos Islands floating near San Francisco?
Environment
Nov 4, 2014
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World's largest map of kelp forest canopies now available
Kelp forests provide myriad benefits to nature and people in oceans around the world. They form the backbone of the ecosystems in which they are found, providing habitat and food for thousands of species. However, recent ...
Ecology
Apr 5, 2022
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Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas—one town wants to show how it's done
Ten miles north of Monterey and a world away from Santa Cruz, Bruce Delgado gazed up a towering sand dune. Careful not to step on the beach buckwheat that protects rare butterflies or the sea lettuce that survives only in ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2020
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California's monarch butterflies critically low for 2nd year
The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remains critically low for the second year in a row, a count by an environmental group released Thursday showed.
Ecology
Jan 23, 2020
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