Greater Farallones Association Kelp restoration specialist Julieta Gomez holding up kelp she is tending at the lab to grow spores for outplanting for kelp restoration. Image Credit: Jennifer Stock/NOAA California scientists are growing young bull kelp in laboratory tanks before placing it back into coastal waters where underwater forests have largely disappeared. At Bodega Marine…

In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion reshaped Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin (Image Credit: U.S. Geological Survey) A century-old mystery at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin has turned out to be less about a missing geyser and more about a misplaced sign. In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion dramatically altered part of the basin, but because nobody witnessed the event, the…