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Fire on the Water: One Diver Fights for Local Kelp Forests

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Source: Pacific Sun

This article contains a hard truth. And hope… And now, here’s the news: Within two years (dating back to 2014), 70% of our orange-brown kelp forests died along a 520-mile stretch of coast, from Monterey, California, to Cape Arago in southern Oregon. Closer in—along the continuous coastal counties of Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino—95% of the […]

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