How is climate change, development, invasive species, etc affecting your favorite /out/ locations?
Anonymous No.2667346 View ViewReport Quoted By:
90% of California's kelp forests have disappeared over the past 10 years.
Warming ocean temperatures weakened the kelp. A disease affecting sea stars killed off billions of them which are a key predator of sea urchins. With this predator removed, and others like sea otters still recovering from near extinction, the urchins rapidly multiplied and ate all the kelp.
What is left is a barren wasteland where nothing can grow.