Looking for tide pools, starfish or sharks in West Des Moines? Come April, residents won’t have to travel farther than Jordan Creek to find Blue Zoo, a for-profit interactive aquarium. Blue Zoo is set ...

A three-year pilot project between the Port of San Diego and eco-engineering company ECOncrete to protect and foster the growth of man-made tide pools has begun on Harbor Island, it was announced ...

The first time I visited a tide pool near Los Angeles, I didn’t actually know that’s what I was looking at. “Why are all those people gathering over on those rocks?” I remember wondering. “What are ...

The Port of San Diego announced Monday a three-year pilot project to test the use of concrete tide pools as a shoreline stabilizing tool. The concrete company ECOncrete will analyze the efficacy of ...

A yellow-edged cadlina, a type of nudibranch or sea slug, is seen laying on the bottom of a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast during an exceptionally low tide on Dec ...

Heavy clouds covered the sky during the morning low tide, casting Harris Beach in a pall of gray. Dark rocks rose out of the dark brown sand, as the receding water lapped quietly against the shore.

All along the California coast’s ocean-carved reefs, bright green anemones wave their tentacles. Purple and orange ochre sea stars clamp tightly to rocks covered in California mussels. Fluorescent ...