From crushing sea urchins to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests are promising

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Joy Hollenback, with a welding hammer strapped to her wrist, donned blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly surf of the Pacific Ocean one fall morning to do her part to save the vanishing kelp forests in Northern California. Hollenback floated on the waving surface to regulate her breathing … Read more

From crushing sea urchins to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests are promising

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Joy Hollenback, with a welding hammer strapped to her wrist, donned blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly surf of the Pacific Ocean one fall morning to do her part to save the vanishing kelp forests in Northern California. Hollenback floated on the waving surface to regulate her breathing … Read more