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@leonardodicaprio : #Regram #RG @nytimes: Climate change is ravaging California’s underwater kelp forests. 5 years ago, assigning wickedness to the purple urchin, a shellfish the size of a plum with quarter-inch spikes, would have been absurd. But when climate change helped trigger a 60-fold explosion of purple urchins off Northern California’s coast, the urchins went on a feeding frenzy and the kelp was devoured. “It would be like one of those beautiful deciduous forests turned into a desert,” said Gretchen Hofmann, a professor of marine ecology at the @ucsantabarbara. “But in the matter of 5 years.” The story of the kelp’s disappearance is the story of an interwoven food system breaking down, and in the process threatening people’s livelihoods. Kelp forests exist along the cooler coastlines of every continent but Antarctica. And they are under threat both from rising ocean temperatures and from what those warmer waters bring. @ga.briella took this photo of purple urchins while @californiadfw did research. Visit the link in our profile to read more.