Cooling off on a hot day at the beach doesn’t have to involve braving the surf. Whether it’s a man-made bath or a natural pool hewn into a cliff face, these beautiful spots by the coast offer the ...

People scour the tide pools at White Point in San Pedro. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It was against the backdrop of a pounding surf one recent morning that almost 30 people had gathered on the ...

La Jolla’s tide pools were chosen as one of two statewide sites for the June 1 kickoff of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s month-long Snapshot Cal Coast initiative. Despite gray skies, ...

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With Earth Day approaching, the following question takes on even more importance. We cannot celebrate the ocean’s recovery when in fact the situation has become more severe than ever, despite all ...

It was a sunny day at Norah Head Beach in New South Wales, Australia, when a visitor recently noticed a dark shadow swimming ...

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 ...

On a typical weekday at low tide, Marine Life Refuge Supervisor Amy Stine is busy conducting noisy groups of school children through the fragile ecosystem that is the tide pools at Little Corona Beach ...