/ Sea Stars Content for 91看片 Davis en /climate/news/californias-crashing-kelp-forest <p>First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins starved. Their fishery collapsed. And the ocean kept warming.<br> <br> It sounds like an ecological horror movie, but this scenario actually happened between 2013 and 2017. Its lasting impacts continue to affect Northern California鈥檚 coast today, with another marine heat wave forecast for this winter.</p> October 21, 2019 - 2:00am Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/californias-crashing-kelp-forest /climate/news/falling-stars <p>The combination of <a href="https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/news/falling-stars/">ocean warming</a> and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America in just a few years, according to <a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau7042">a study</a>&nbsp;co-led by the 91看片, Davis, and Cornell University published Jan. 30 in the journal <em>Science Advances</em>.</p> January 30, 2019 - 1:35pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/falling-stars