Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto ...

Oregon has lost two-thirds of its kelp forests since 2010. Efforts to remove hundreds of thousands of purple urchins might ...

An otter is hopping on surfboards in Santa Cruz's storied Steamers Lane. Two years ago, a similar situation played out in ...

Alaska’s wolves are turning to the ocean for food, hunting sea otters and revealing how ecosystems overlap at the coast.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife previously recommended that kayakers should keep at least 60 feet away from sea otters and avoid large ...

Taylor Swift unintentionally kicked off a conservation movement after a brief on-screen moment turned into a major fundraiser ...

Setting aside land for nature is one of the main global strategies to conserve biodiversity. From national parks to local ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is launching a limited-time fundraiser to support its sea otter program, inspired by a vintage T-shirt recently worn by Taylor Swift.Fans spotted Swift wearing a vintage ...

The more prolonged the exposure of sea otters and their offspring are to human activities, the higher the likelihood that this is going to occur more frequently,” one expert told the ...

SANTA CRUZ — When a colleague passed the photo along to sea otter expert Gena Bentall, she thought it was fake. “The first thing I said was ‘That is 100% AI (artificial intelligence),” Bentall said ...

As Earth warms at a record rate, winters are shorter and milder and there is less snow globally, creating clear challenges ...

Taylor Swift and the vintage otter T-shirt from Monterey Bay Aquarium she wore during 'The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.' According to KSBW, shortly after the premiere of The Official Release ...