And something all in a row

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/australian-kelp-forests-decline-climate-change-oceans/104588974

Rest of the article talks about global efforts to manage kelp forests, about australia's kelp, its significance, and the currents driving its decline, a bit more about how people don't tend to notice what's underwater, and about local groups who are ringing the alarm bells and pushing for action.

It's a bit interesting to me. I remember when there was a massive tube worm infestation on the sea floor around sydney, a carpet of invasive pests which stretched for kilometer after kilometer, displacing other benthic organisms and disrupting the lives of those creatures which would have fed on them. Couldn't tell you what happened to it cause I haven't seen an update since. No one, including me, cared enough to find out I guess. Invasive species tend to get worked into an ecosystem over time, but the changes from climate change seem to be acting more like a whack to the tropic base of those systems. We're seeing a lot of aridification and marine desertification, bleaching, etc but that creeping decline doesn't seem to be spectacular enough to make the news all that often.