The Purple Urchins Don't Die

Published: March 26, 2021, 8 a.m.

NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer explains how scientists are getting creative to deal with the hordes of urchins overtaking kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean \u2014 and why this kind of drastic ecological change may become more common as the climate gets hotter.

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