Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Will Hollis / USA / 20 mins / English / 2024

Along California’s coastline, once-thriving kelp forests are vanishing, consumed by unchecked sea urchin populations and erratic environmental shifts. In Monterey Bay, home to one of the nation’s largest marine protected areas, scientists, conservationists, and volunteers race against time to restore this vital habitat before it disappears completely.