Tide pools rank among some of my very favorite places on the Oregon coast. I love the primordial pools at Sunset Bay, the rocky pockets around Yachats, the wild beauty at the base of Haystack Rock.

Red as a fire engine, the rock crab backed into a corner of a small pool of water and stared at the monster lurking above it in Olympic National Park. If the five-inch crab had been facing a raccoon ...

DANA POINT – Johnny Scolari couldn’t contain his enthusiasm. The 4-year-old raced across the sand near the shoreline beneath the Dana Point Headlands, scampering over rocks and climbing boulders to ...

Hitting the beach in the summer is a given, but winter? Why not, since it offers low tides and fewer crowds, which make a perfect combination for tide pooling. While you might balk at diving in frigid ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LA JOLLA, Calif. – Environmentalists are ...

Much of climate change research is focused on the big problems. Models forecast how quickly polar ice caps are melting in the Arctic and whether rising sea levels might drown entire islands in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Ocean life found in Oregon and Northern California’s tide pools is struggling to recover from a 15-year heat wave brought on by climate change, a new study conducted by Oregon ...