Climate Change

In the past decade, the number of juvenile great white sharks in Monterey Bay has soared as ocean temperatures rise due to climate change. And with new predators come changes to the ecosystem.

A new state law aims to keep food and other organic waste out of the landfill. But the food scrap collection program in Santa Cruz is making a mess for some residents.

California’s underwater kelp forests are in trouble. A combination of climate change and hungry purple sea urchins have decimated these vital forests. But…

Not far from the UC Santa Cruz campus is a 40 acre forest plot. Students have been counting seeds and measuring trees on this plot for more than a decade.…

Far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean is a lab run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, MBARI. From here, scientists have been studying…

Since mid-May, disoriented and sometimes convulsing sea lions have been showing up on beaches across the Central Coast. It has become an annual occurrence…

In September 2019, a year-long experiment began. Publicized as the largest Central Arctic expedition in history, it was to be the closest ever look at the…

The rate of sea level rise is accelerating. Communities along the California coast are preparing for that eventuality. In Santa Cruz County, some are…

“King tides” will roll into the coastline this weekend. But there are some misperceptions about these high tides.The name “King tide” is a non-scientific…

On Friday, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg became the first of the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates to hold a public rally in Monterey.…