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From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise
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After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California’s iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping.