The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, ...

Giant kelp and bull kelp forests create habitats that support an amazing diversity of sea life, and their floating canopies are a prominent feature at the surface of California coastal waters.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery ...

Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean ...

Sonoma State University kelp researcher Rachael Karm holds up a growing blade of bull kelp at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News) BODEGA BAY, Calif. (CN) ...

For years, Macklyn Cove was a land of the living dead. Located near Brookings along Oregon's south coast, the cove was once home to vast underwater kelp forests that supported species as small as ...

An international team is calling for a US $14 billion investment to protect and restore one of the planet's most valuable and overlooked marine ecosystems, kelp forests. The funding is needed to ...

Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp. 50 States, 50 Fixes Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp.

SAN DIEGO — A California aquarium‘s Halloween spirit runs deep – 12 feet under, to be exact. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography added a fake skeleton from Home Depot to its ...