Nancy Caruso’s Get Inspired program has been giving the green abalone a human helping hand for the past two decades.

Make time for The Shark is Broken on the Laguna Beach Patch calendar ...

Scripps Oceanography scientists hope the findings will aid efforts to restore kelp and bolster its resilience to changing conditions ...

This year's fellows' cohort also includes the first recipient of the Pew-Gerstner Fellowship in Ocean Plastics Research, which supports research on solutions to marine plastic pollution; and the ...

With kelp dissections, ocean-inspired artwork and field trips from the La Jolla tide pools to the San Elijo Lagoon, Rancho ...

Forty years of data collected by Scripps Institution of Oceanography tracks the West Coast's largest giant kelp forest.

Young kelp forests are returning to Peru after scientists replanted giant seaweed, creating habitat for fish and restoring ...

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one parent holding fast to the hard bottom might come as many as 150 stipes.

Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water ...

The trail to a popular mid-county swimming hole received some love from Santa Barbara County Tuesday when supervisors ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...