Open the Youtube video Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals, but they have some incredible adaptations to thrive in the ocean. Unlike seals and whales, they don’t have a thick layer of blubber ...

Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to ...

You’ve likely seen those heartwarming images of darling little sea otters floating on their backs with their tiny hands ...

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

Kelp is being negatively impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter growing and harvesting seasons, including for sugar kelp, one of the most commonly farmed kelp ...

Bull kelp provides food and shelter for salmon, Southern Resident orcas, sunflower stars, pinto abalone, rockfish, harbor ...

“Because otters help maintain kelp ecosystems by holding urchins in check, any statewide recovery of otters that can be achieved may facilitate statewide recovery of kelp ecosystems.” Though ...

Draft legislation would designate bull kelp in the Puget Sound as Washington’s official marine state forest.

After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer ... restoring the state’s dwindling underwater kelp forests and controlling invasive sea urchin ...