By nurturing sunflower sea stars in captivity, researchers aim to one day restore a key predator to the Pacific Ocean.

EUREKA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, reclassifying it ...

EUREKA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to change the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, from ...

The kelp forests of central California, and particularly those within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, have undergone ...

The return of kelp forests in northern California will depend in part on the return of sunflower stars, a kind of starfish that were decimated by a disease in 2013 and never returned. Momentum is ...