Gulf Today

Xposure 2026 announces Conservation Summit on 2 February

Against mounting global threats to marine ecosystems, Xposure International Photography Festival 2026 will host its ...

Diversity, history and overlooked beauty: The fight to revive Sydney’s forgotten second harbour

Despite the ravages of industry and urban development, Botany Bay has retained pockets of surprising beauty with biodiversity ...
Discover Wildlife

“I nearly lost my dive watch and a glove while ‘holding hands’ with an octopus in this way.”

I’ve learned how to befriend an octopus. I keep still, present my hand and pretend not to look directly at it. It eventually ...

In the Curator’s Words: At Catalina Museum, San Diego-based artist explores California’s kelp forests

San Diegan Oriana Poindexter, a marine scientist and photographer, brings together art and science in her latest exhibition, ...
Mother Jones

First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving ...
Inside Climate News

Maine’s Once Abundant Kelp Forests Face an Array of Growing Threats

Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean ...
Earth Times

Beneath the Surface: Freediving and Spearfishing Communities Along the California Coast

The California coast—spanning nearly 840 miles of rugged shorelines, kelp forests, and marine biodiversity—is a natural magnet for water enthusiasts. Among the most devoted are the freediving and ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Tracey Weiss, Our Ocean Backyard | Restoring the vanishing kelp of Monterey Bay

Over the past few years, and again more recently, we have been hearing about a growing concern along our coastline. The once abundant kelp forests of Monterey Bay are thinning, shrinking or ...
Courthouse News Service

Northern California’s next kelp forests might be growing in a lab

Sonoma State University kelp researcher Rachael Karm holds up a growing blade of bull kelp at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News) BODEGA BAY, Calif. (CN) ...
The New York Times

To Get the Story, a Land-Loving Journalist Had to Dive Deep

A climate reporter wanted to follow scientists into the Mediterranean Sea. First, he had to learn to scuba dive. By Raymond Zhong Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...
a-z-animals

Dive Into the Wild World of America’s National Marine Sanctuaries

From the sunlit shallows around Hawai‘i to the chilly depths of the Great Lakes, the United States protects some of its wildest, weirdest, and most wonderful underwater landscapes through a network of ...