Reporting live below
The gently rolling waves
Off the Palos Verdes Peninsula
A spiny purple menace is ravaging
What should be a thriving kelp forest
Details after the break...
Millions of sea urchins
Scrawny, diseased, and desperate for food
Have overrun the shallow seafloor
Devouring kelp at an astonishing rate
This is Brock T. Johnson signing off