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A Seabird Comeback: How Restoration Efforts Can Combat Climate Change
Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth’s continents drifted toward their current positions and modern oceans took shape. They spread across thousands of undisturbed islands in the...
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New Map Exposes Critical Gaps in Bay Area’s Readiness for Sea Level Rise
About half of the shoreline running along the lip of San Francisco Bay has no plans in place to protect against future rising seas. That’s in terms of the cost of preparing the region for the climate...
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Meet the Floating Animals That Call the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Home
Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the seas. They hang out at the nexus of the world’s ocean currents, changing shape...
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Climate Change Is Creating Bigger Waves on California Coasts
Earlier this year, California was pummeled by what local surfer’s described as the best swell in decades: massive waves that damaged piers, crumbled sea cliffs and flooded coastlines. A new study finds...
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California Mandates Coastal Cities Plan for Future Sea-Level Rise
For the first time in California history, all coastal cities, including those in the Bay Area, must plan for sea-level rise, a looming climate impact yet to be fully experienced. The new law — SB 272 —...
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Annual Climate Negotiations Are About To Start. Do They Matter?
A major annual international climate meeting kicks off later this week in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. World leaders are meeting from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 to discuss the effects of climate change,...
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New Fossils Suggest Kelp Forests Have Swayed in the Seas for at Least 32...
The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They’re a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, and...
View ArticleWatch Spawning Corals Synchronize With the Night Sky
When the moon, sun and ocean temperatures all align, an underwater “snowstorm” occurs. Corals put on a massive spawning spectacle by sending tiny white spheres floating up the water column all at once....
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How an Ocean Exploration Video Game Out of Monterey Bay Contributes to Science
As you drift along the currents in our underwater ocean world, you’ll find jellies, sea spiders, starfish, anemones, octopuses, isopods, and so many other species of marine life. Your mission as an...
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Take a Look at New Species of Marine Life Discovered by Bay Area Scientists
A team of oceanographers led by Palo Alto-based Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered twenty possible new species of ocean life across ten seamounts during an ocean expedition on the Nazca Ridge in the...
View ArticleBeware of Flesh-Eating Sand Piranhas at the Beach
Known as sand piranhas, Excirolana chiltoni are tiny crustaceans that nibble at your feet – and draw blood – if you hang out on the wet sand at the beach. They live on the Pacific coast of the U.S. and...
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Thousands of Mysterious Blue Creatures Wash Up on Bay Area Beaches After...
Blue, jellyfish-like creatures called Velella velella have been washing up along California’s coast recently, captivating beachgoers and worrying climate scientists tracking stranding patterns. Gabriel...
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