Witnesses reported seeing a shark breach just offshore at Lovers Point that morning, where Fox was leading a group of about a ...

Erica Fox’s husband and dozens of Kelp Krawlers swim club members and friends formed a solemn procession along the Lovers ...

It’s apparently the first fatal shark attack at Lovers Point in more than 70 years, but 3 years after a fellow swimmer was ...

Researchers warn this transition isn’t unique to the state. Expert sounds alarm as harmful species spread in US waterways: ...

Researchers examining a century of ocean maps made an exciting discovery linking sea otter populations to kelp forests: Where sea otters thrive, so do these critical underwater habitats. The research ...

What we’re seeing is that, globally, kelp is traded at commodity scales and in the Gulf of Maine, we’re currently operating ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

The mounds of kelp that recently washed onto local beaches point to a thriving offshore ecosystem created by restoration efforts over the past decade, experts say. Ten years ago, there was practically ...

While the marine heatwaves killing the kelp ecosystem were alarming on their own, the researchers have discovered a new ...

The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds of ...

CAMBRIDGE — Kelp-based foods are making their way onto K-12 school lunch menus — to some surprising reviews. “It’s like heaven on earth,” Agustina Leon Perdomo, a 16-year-old junior at Cambridge ...

Keystone species play an outsized role in the ecosystem, affecting the natural balance in ways that cannot easily be replaced.