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In 2013, millions of purple sea urchins began to be removed from barren reefs; seven years later, more than 55 acres of kelp forest had recovered

Clarín · north america

The disappearance of predators and a marine heatwave had turned extensive areas of the California coast into purple urchin-dominated grounds.

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