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Kelp forest restoration is happening at a new scale off Tofino, British Columbia, where the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, the Redd Fish Restoration Society and West Coast Kelp launched a kelp nursery in Clayoquot Sound in early 2026. Organizers call it the largest kelp restoration project on the west coast of…

Why do sea otters keep stealing surfboards in Santa Cruz? Earlier this month, a sea otter swam straight at a youth surf club at Steamer Lane and climbed onto a surfer's board until one of the kids charged it away. It's the latest in a run of encounters at the…

Great white sharks vanished from South Africa's most famous hotspots, and scientists can't agree why. In 1991 South Africa became the first country in the world to protect white sharks by law, and for two decades False Bay, Gansbaai and Mossel Bay were among the most reliable places on Earth…

When you hear "El Niño," you probably think weather. Underwater, it's one of the biggest food events on the planet, and NOAA says this year's could be the strongest ever recorded, with an 83% chance of a historic event this fall. We follow it from the bottom up: weakening trade…

When you hear "El Niño," you probably think weather. Underwater, it's one of the biggest food events on the planet, and NOAA says this year's could be the strongest ever recorded, with an 83% chance of a historic event this fall. We follow it from the bottom up: weakening trade…

Ocean Science Facts or headlines? You have probably heard that the ocean will be empty of fish by 2048, and that a Greenland shark in the Arctic is 400 years old, or even 512. Both numbers came from real papers published in Science, one of the world's most respected journals.…

Dead coral reef found alive after 60 years off Benin. In the 1960s, fishing surveys off the West African coast picked up what looked like a deep-water coral reef and wrote it off as probably dead. Nobody went back to check. This summer, a team led by Gérard Zinzindohoué of…

Ocean myths spread fast, and some of the biggest ones started in real scientific papers. Today on Ocean Decoded Live, marine biologist Andrew Lewin traces two of them back to the source. Did a 2006 study say the ocean would be empty of fish by 2048? Is there a 400-year-old…

Ocean myths spread fast, and some of the biggest ones started in real scientific papers. Today on Ocean Decoded Live, marine biologist Andrew Lewin traces two of them back to the source. Did a 2006 study say the ocean would be empty of fish by 2048? Is there a 400-year-old…