Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp forests, an important carbon sink. The founders of a Newport startup have ...

New research has uncovered a crucial clue to understanding the spread of "barrens" in the Great Southern Reef, which are threatening the reef ecosystem. "Barrens" are areas of low, or no, seaweed ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

A blue groper eating a long-spined sea urchin fed to it by a diver. While it’s known that blue groper fish can eat long-spined sea urchins, the aim of this study was to reveal how often it happens in ...

Hōnaunau Bay, Hawaii on 25 January, 2020. Sea urchin populations are ballooning in the bay, putting the coral reef at risk, a new study has found. - Greg Asner The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in ...