Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline ... “It is getting to the point where elephant seal pups and sea lion pups are stranding now in high numbers,” Warner said.

Sea lions in Southern California waters had rarely posed a problem for beachgoers, surfers and swimmers. Now, scientists say a naturally occurring bloom of toxic algae, a neurotoxin, is infecting ...

Without sea stars ... On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in ...

But recently in California ... sea lion population is still robust but that this trend could have implications for the species down the line.“It is getting to the point where elephant seal ...