It’s a cool, gray evening in the Moss Landing Harbor District, a tiny strip of land trapped between Highway 1 and the innermost point of Monterey Bay. In a humble rectangular building at the sea’s ...

How can California’s kelp forests, which have faced dramatic declines due to climate change, persist and thrive in the future? The stakes could not be higher. Giant kelp, the foundation of coastal ...

MONTEREY — From touching up paint jobs before opening for the day to caring for the animals and doing repair work when things do go wrong, there’s always work to be done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the Monterey Bay Aquarium counts down to its 40th anniversary in October, The Herald is doing a series of stories taking a closer look at the history, research work and ...

We’ve visited zoos and aquariums all over the world, and these days we don’t necessarily seek them out these days. So many of them seemingly offer the same experience and most aquariums don’t have a ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to ...